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Keeping to the night's Wolfgang Kramer theme, we finished off with another new game, this time a light card game called FBI. The idea behind the game is that you are a law enforcement officer on the lookout for crooks to put in the 'slammer'. However, it's possible you could wrongfully arrest an innocent bystander and you get penalised for ending up with them in your slammer when the game finishes. The crooks and innocents are represented by cards with positive values for crooks and negative for the innocents. Bonus Points are awarded at the end of the game to whoever has the highest value crooks of each colour in their slammer.

On each turn, a number of cards are revealed and these are sorted by colour. Players then bid for turn order. Each player will arrest two people per turn with the first being taken in turn order and the second in reverse turn order. Players simultaneously choose which colours they are going to make their arrests from, before any arrests take place and the arresting player takes the highest value card of the colour he chose. However, it's possible to find you arrest someone you were not expecting to and get negative points rather than positive. Quite a bit of second-guessing needed. It also is lots of fun seeing someone lumbered with a bad card they hadn't expected to take.