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I find the qualities of a filler game are something easily explained in 5 minutes, plays fast, and most importantly infinitely replayable. It's this reason that my favorite filler is 2 games. The first is Lost Legacy, which has dethroned Love Letter for us.

Lost Legacy adds an extra depth of special to the Love Letter formula. It is also draw 1 play 1 but it adds 2 things: a ruins deck where a card may go to and stay unknown (order is important) and an Investigation phase by the end which gives each player a chance to guess where the LL (this game's princess) is. BUT, the order of investigation starts from the lowest numbered card which is always the riskiest to play.

If you're looking for a Love Letter that plays over 4 Seabass, no problem with this game as combining any two Lost Legacy decks can go up to 6 players. Yeah, thats right: decks. For you see Lost Legacy comes in many flavors each with its own mechanical theme (card scrying, elimination, math draws, etc) so say if you want a cutthroat game with player reading you combine The Starship and The Vorpal Sword. If you want a math game with graveyard searching you combine the Sacred Grail and the Staff of Dragons. Even in those counts a 32 deck game is still very short at 6p.

And the 2nd filler I love? It is also our loudest game: Deep Sea Adventure. This very deceptive japanese microgame is at its core about greed. See, you're all on a quest for undersea loot, but everyone shares the same oxygen tank. So its not only push your luck, but a cutthroat game of chance as well. All it takes is one desparate guy in the back row to pick up treasure and consume oxygen for the rest of the pack to follow suit and drown. Very cerebral, and very loud. Lots of YOU GREEDY BASTARD tossed arpund here and there. The game shines brightest after about 50 plays when the metagame has gotten to a pt where nobody drowns but everyone is vocally unnerved by each other's greed.
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