Saboteur

I've mentioned before that I'm not a big fan of card games. I was pleasantly surprised that Saboteur, a 3+ player card game, is actually a neat little fun game you can play with easily with a group of people who are relatively new to gaming. Saboteur puts each player in a role of a member of a group of gnomes that are trying to dig a tunnel to a gold nugget. The catch is that one player (or with more players even two players) is secretly a saboteur, who is trying to thwart the party's plan and get the nugget only to himself.

At the beginning, each player is dealt a hand of cards (depends on the number of players) and a loyalty card which he secretly checks to see if they are a saboteur or not (like in BSG). Then the basic card are placed on the table. On one side, there is a ladder, which is a starting point for the party, and on the other side there are three cards symbolizing the goal, two of which are worthless coal and one which is gold. These goal cards are shuffled and placed face down so that the gold is always in a random place and no one knows where.