| Ridicule me all you like for suggesting this, but I personally really like the Pokemon Trading Figure Game. There's a fair amount of randomness to it, but managing that risk and tactical awareness of the board I find to be hugely fun, and the rules are very simple while supporting quite a bit of depth. Essentially, it's a very soundly designed game that's been marketed to the wrong demographic. The marketing's been abysmal (from the packaging, there's no way to tell it's got a board and so all you see is the spinner figures) and the second set has been delayed for nearly two years now and once again has no release date... Even so, if the Pokemon franchise has any nostalgia value for you whatsoever, look into it. (I saw it a while back, dismissed it out of hand as silly, saw some people playing it at a con, asked to try it, played for three hours - winning all but one of the games - and promptly bought $50 worth of figures.) | 
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