All the King's Men provides a pretty nifty grid-based mechanic that could potentially keep us satisfied well into the night. It's all about knocking blocks off the side of the grid in order to conjure up battle units, which then appear on a battlefield at the top, and charge towards the enemy.
Dominion is one of the cleverest, most innovative and genre-defining card games of the last decade, but it's also one of the driest. The continual card-sorting and shuffling was annoying, and with virtually no interaction, I felt no great draw to play it with other people. Computer implementations, however, are another story; and HTML5 gaming suite Goko is offering the game for free, with the added convenience of playing in your browser.