Is that why Ed sits in the far back corner of the cafeteria during lunch? Because he is reading romance novels?! Romance novels are better than 42?!

Obviously, someone needs to go back to elementary school to work on his reading comprehension.

Glad to see you blogging again, Susan!

R-Eco was a recent pickup in my house, too. The theme interested me before I even played the thing, but about the time some buddies were figuring out how to organize a group purchase from Japan, we heard Z-Man was coming out with a version here in the US. I'm not sure why Z-Man switched to cardboard tokens in place of the scoring cards, but that's ok.

Played it once with my 10yo, Molly, and then once again with Molly and my wife Candy. As long as you've got someone dealing the cards (more complicated that usual, in this game), we found it moves along at a nice clip. A good one for us.

-MArk

I'll echo the sentiment that R-Eco is a fantastic filler. It is quite unassuming and when I first listened to the rules, I thought it might be another in a long line of games destined for dust collection duty before being traded or given away. It was clever and most importantly quite fun.