Anitas and Roshnis first play of 7 Wonders

A few days after our first game of 7 Wonders, we got Roshni and Anita to have a game with us. Playing 5 players radically changes the length and excitement of the game - for the better in the most part. Obviously there needed some explanations and pointing out rules, but they picked it up fairly quickly due to the most part the game being based on symbols rather than text - this being I think the key to its greatness as a game. Now we had a situation in play that meant we all had a city to our sides, but also a player we couldn't reach to buy resources off - leading to a few friendly "ahgahga I wish you were over here!" moments.

Also it was during this game we realised in our first game we had made a critical gaming mistake - in my first post of this game I stated that everyone chooses a card simultaneously to build and then reveal one after the the other. In our first game, we were choosing a card one at a time and revealing it, therefore giving an advantage to the last player in the turn as they would know what resources, buildings etc the previous players had played. Oh well, each new game comes with mistakes when learning the rules. :)

The game play speeded up with the resolution of this rule and we very much enjoyed the game.

End of game - the Hanging Gardens of Babylon 

and the Statue of Zeus have been completed