Lurching across the table like some horror-flick slasher, Kazuma Suzuki’s Somnia wears the skin of an older trick-taker. In this case, that victim is Mittlere Jass, a peculiar three-player Swiss trick-taker that’s all about trying to avoid the middle score. Like the other titles in this season’s New Mill Industries releases, especially last week’s Man-Eating House, this is a fiddly trickster that’s somehow all the more compelling for its jagged edges.

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