Jan van Leyden
Adventurer
I like Euros well enough, but I know what Umbran is saying about the style... Its certainly not for everyone. There is a certain mathy puzzleness to most of them.
Let's agree that those games are one part of the spectrum, okay? If you're looking at games from Uwe Rosenberg or - in many cases- Friedemann Friese you might encounter games that quickly turn into work. On the other and opf the spectrum you find games like Piranha Pedro or Ausreißer with a rather limited effect of plans.
Though, if by Arabian Nights, you mean "Tales of the Arabian Nights," thats not really what I would consider a Euro - its more of a storytelling game. And "Modern Art" is an auction game, isn't it? Also out of print and hard to get I believe.
Yes, Rainer Kinizia's Modern Art is an auction game with the twist of the auctioned item determining how this auction works. It has been published in 1992 and re-printed by a different publisher with different grafics in 2009. It isn't hard to find in Germany. By the way, we'll try to sell our copy next weekend at the Ratinger Spieletage, demanding 8-10 Euro for it. Mayfair's American version runs for 18.72 Euros.
Interesting that [MENTION=177]Umbran[/MENTION] gives it a heads-up: it's one of the more atypical Knizia games. The author normally has the inclination to introduce some weird rules elements, especially for scoring, throwing a wrench into an otherwise simple game, thus introducing the dreaded puzzleness. Modern Art plays straight on with only the different auction mechanisms making planning harder.