Buy, Maybe, No Buy

Of the new-to-me (and mostly new-since-Essen) games I've played, I
broke them down into three categories: Buy, Maybe and No. Within
maybe there's some more likely than others. Several of the "No"
games are quite good, just not for me.

Buy:

• Race for the Galaxy: I can hardly wait
  
• Caylus Magna Carta: For me, standard Caylus will be completely obsolete
  
• Notre Dame: Good to see Alea "back on track"
  
• Friedemann's auction prototype: Can't say more
  
• Baumeister von Arkadia: A surprise hit
  

Maybe:

• Capes & Cowls: Fun, I love the theme, almost certainly will get it
  
• Volle Wolle: Yet another entertaining Zoch dice game. Probably worth it.
  
• Colloseum: Probably. But not definitely.
  
• Thurn & Taxis For Power & Glory: Probably, but I'm not sure I play enough T&T to make this worthwhile.
  
• Pillars of the Earth: 3 or 4 years ago, this would have been a definite yes, probably a buy still
  
• Tumblin Dice: probably too large/expensive, but fun
  
• Huang Di: probably not a buy for me, but it's interesting and fun
  
• Truffel Schnuffel: Cute kids game from Haba, but if I bought everything with that description, I'd be overrun
  
• Sakkara: Interesting, but broken without a rules fix, could be quite good with a fix
  
• Zooloretto: Fun, but maybe not enough to justify the shelf space
  

No

• Wikinger: For me, it didn't hang together well enough
  
• Guatemala Cafe: Left me cold
  
• Portobello Market: Short, not interesting enough.
  
• Sudoku Challenge: Some game there, but not enough
  
• Dragon Parade: Cute, but nothing striking.
  
• Jetzt schlagt's 13: Mundane.
  
• Stonehenge: I'd like to play the other three games, but the two I tried weren't "enough".
  
• Nomads of Arabia: I didn't feel like there were enough choices