Some of the games that are excessively cluttering up the place are ones which I personally like, so it is rather distressing to have to provide an extra incentive for you to buy them; you should have bought them already! These are some which immediately spring to mind in that regard, I have given few details here as a quick click on the link takes you to those, and I am trying to be brief, if only to prove to the many doubters that I can be.

Atlanteon
Sally and I were introduced to this one by one of our regulars, and took to it straight away. It is a fairly straightforward tactical two-player game, one of those which is easy to pick up but requires a bit of concentration, and I find its appearance rather attractive (not that I am normally accused of having taste). A typical Reiner Knizia game, simple but a bit devious, and for me, sufficiently different from the several other of his games that I regularly play.

Chizo Rising
I suspect that this falls between two stools from a marketing viewpoint, not quite a collectable card game but close enough to scare off those who avoid them automatically. Two one-player starter sets give an adequate selection of tiles for varied and interesting games, and what stands out is how two people with very different taste in games – one an avid Magic: The Gathering player and one who plays few games, none of them collectable - both enjoyed themselves immensely when introduced to it together. Essentially a positional game like Atlanteon, but with extra twists.

Easter Island
Another game just reduced a bit to get your interest. It is an interesting, nicely themed and produced, two player abstract game, and you can't argue with the price for the size and production. It's a bit of a coffee table game, really. Somehow it just seems to have been overlooked, as good two player abstracts often are, simply because there are so many to choose from.

Express Chess: Safari + Express Chess: Space Exploration
I have always liked this game, but it didn't catch on – as chess variants often don't – so I am finally accepting that it has got to go. Two decks give you a fairly normal chess set-up plus a degree of customizability, for a tenner you can have four decks and experiment with all manner of options. It uses the basic chess moves but the set-up puts the two sides already very close so it is quite short and bloody. Hence the name.

Grass
A cannabis-themed game, probably more frowned upon now than 20 years ago when it first arrived, which could be why my rather adequate stocks have not been moving. First imported by a famous games collector and designer who neither drinks nor smokes, who recognised it as a damned good game, perhaps still the ultimate development of the old French game Milles Bornes. Backpacker is a modified and re-themed version and that's very good too, so if you are still not tempted by this one, buy that instead. Everyone should have one or the other.

Prompt
OK, I admit that I have not played this Shakespeare based game, but it looks gorgeous and must be worth a look at under a tenner.

Who Stole Ed's Pants?
Sally and I like this game, in fact I must get our copy out for one of our Wednesday evening gaming sessions soon. It has been around a while so it is continuing to sell somewhere, but has gone quiet for us. I believe that it was the first game by Eight Foot Llama, several more have followed so they seem to be doing OK.
The essence of the game is that you are trying to pin crimes on your fellow players using your witnesses. On your turn you can change the plausibility of your witnesses, the evidence, or the facts themselves; the interaction between the three is really quite complex, so it is more of a gamers' game than it first appears to be. We've trimmed the price to tempt you.

Who?
As a sort of 20 questions with some nice twists and an arrangement that makes it every man for himself instead of a team game, I had expected this to go well. It didn't really catch on, and we have three left – as the years roll by it is becoming less and less suitable for younger players, with the erstwhile contemporary characters coming from an increasingly distant past. Still good fun for older players.