Why two-player nights are driving our spring buying list
London flats and weeknight clocks reshaped what premium means for us. Four-hour euros still have a room in the catalogue, but the growth edge is duelling decks and tight mechanical arcs that respect forty minutes including teach.
Two-player salons in our Ludgate Hill space now mirror real homes: smaller tables, softer lighting, and the honest friction of passing components across a narrow span. If a card line needs a third shadow player, we downgrade its priority.
Spring buying therefore skews toward card-driven sagas with generous mulligans, low setup, and automata that do not read like homework. We still test automata twice: once fast, once cruel.
Expect more pairs tagged for travel tins and fewer six-seat boxes unless they split cleanly into a three-versus-three ladder. The list is editorial, not algorithmic.