Matt has introduced me to my new favorite board game of all time so far: Tigris & Euphrates. It’s a little like Settlers of Catan, only different. There are rules and a turn-based online game available on the boardgamegeek website - so if anyone’s interested in learning the game and playing, let me know!

Tigris & Euphrates is great to play while working, because you get emailed when it’s your turn. Any amount of time can pass between moves, from a couple of minutes to hours - I’ve got three games going right now; one of them is with a person from Australia and a person from England, so our schedules don’t match up frequently, so the game moves at about two rounds per day. You can also set up private games, and those can finish fairly quickly.

After my first win (my second game, even; though Matt may have been playing a little loose), we celebrated with a long-distance high-five: