After Goldbrau, we just had time for a short game of Engel & Bengel (a re-release of Hasbro's Sharp Shooters). This is very similar in feel to Can't Stop, one of my favourite dice games. The game comes with numerous boards and each board shows a series of dice combinations with a payout amount for completing each combination. So for instance, a row of four two's pays out forty whereas a straight 1 - 6 pays ninety. There can also be bogey combinations where you lose money, such as a single four loses you 20. On a player's turn they roll five dice and must add at least one die to the board. They can then re-roll any remaining dice or choose to stick with what they've got in which case the next player starts again with five dice. Once a row has been filled the player placing the last die receives the payout or pays the penalty for a bogey row. Once a board is completely filled, the board and dice are removed, a new board is revealedand play continues. The game ends after a certain number of boards and the person with the most money wins.

Nige raced out into a fantastic lead mainly due to my ineptitude in rolling dice. Try as I might, I always fell one short of completing a row, leaving the player on my left, Nige, an easy task to pick up some money. Mark G and Mark K took ages to get off the mark and it wasn't until the third board (of five) that anyone made any inroad into Nige's lead. Lady luck the nturned against our leader as he was forced into taking a couple of nasty bogey combinations and Mark K raced past to capture victory. Lots of fun and laughter, three of us thought it was great for the type of game it's meant to be; 'No-fun Nige' acted true to form and rated it a 4.