While the Historia-ns were still hard developing their civilizations, our group had time for a third game and I picked Temporum. This has a very loose time travel theme but it is really a race to get your generate 30 scoring points to move your 10 crown meeples from time zone 1 to time zone 4. The interesting aspect is that the cards representing each zone are randomly generated and this means that each game plays differently. On a player's turn, they get to change a path between time zones, then they move through time to a particular zone and carry out the action associated with that space. These will allow you to either draw cards; play cards to generate money and carry out an action; or pay money to score a card and move your crowns towards time zone 4. Once somebody has all their crowns in that fourth zone, they win.

This particular set-up of time zone cards proved to be quite aggressive with lots of opportunities to get other players to lose money, discard cards from their hand and move crowns backwards. As a result, the game took quite a bit longer than when I've played previously, but it still finished in around the hour mark. And it ended up very close with Guy being the first to get his crowns home although both Nicky and I would have finished on our next turn. Everyone enjoyed this and it was funny that John immediately compared it to Dominion without him knowing that it was designed by Donald X Vaccarino. Everyone was interested to see how it played with different combinations of time zone cards so maybe we'll play it again fairly soon.