Let’s Go to Japan (led by K-ban) 2024 card drafting game where players are traveler planners who after 13 turns of planning get to experience their own dream vacation to Japan. The game consists of thirteen rounds in which players draw activity cards illustrated by Japan-based artists and strategically place them on different days in their week-long itinerary. These tourist attractions have players bouncing between Tokyo and Kyoto as players try to puzzle out the optimal activities to maximize their experience while balancing their resources. The game ends with a final round in which players ultimately go on their planned trip, activating each of their cards in order along the way. The player who collects the most points by the end of their trip wins!

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/368173/lets-go-japan

Splito (led by K-ban) 2022 card game that’s a cross between Point Salad (choice of playing goal cards or veggies/colored numbers) and Between Two Cities (playing cards to a shared area with your two neighbors) plus two shared common goals for all at the table. 13 cards are played, each time players select a card and assign it to one of their neighboring zones and pass the rest to their left hand neighbor. Scores are the points earned for each player’s two zones multiplied together.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/359878/splito

Project L (led by K-ban) 2020 charming combination of puzzle solving with engine building. Players start with 2 acrylic puzzle pieces and earn additional shapes by completing puzzles. Players select from among several actions – drafting puzzles, upgrading pieces, placing pieces and the important master building action. The game rewards efficiency in the drafting and in use of their 3 actions per turn. There are two recently released expansions to try, as well as a spin-off similar game in the works called Square One.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/260180/project-l