Everyone has done this.

I stopped off at my friendly neighborhood game store, just to pick up a battle mat. That’s all I needed. Oh, and maybe the Paranoid Card Game. But that’s all. Just a quick browse through the used section maybe, but really nothing else. Just here for a battle ma- oh, what’s that?

“That” turned out to be Let’s Kill. Another Atlas Games card game.

Let’s Kill grabbed me for two reasons. The first was that it used stick figure art. And I have a soft spot for games that can pull off that look. The second was that it was blatantly about killing people. And I’d had a rough week.

So for quite some time, I kept seeing this card game called Cthulhu 500. Yes, it’s another Atlas Games card game. No, they don’t pay me anything.

Anyway, I like Cthulhu stuff, but I’m not so interested in racing or racing card games. Art looked kinda nifty, but in general I dismissed it.

Jokes on me, as it turns out.

First off, the art isn’t kinda nifty. It’s good. Darn good. In fact, one might go so far as to say it’s Rad. But one would be dating one’s self by doing so.

Secondly, the presentation is very clever. I’m a big fan of puns and wordplay anyway, so maybe that’s personal taste, but when you’re playing a Cthulhu based racing card game, and you come across the card “Rats In The Whitewalls,” you either chuckle, or you’re in need of repair.

But above anything, this game meets the one standard I have for all card games: Can I sit at the Sunday night game table, and use this game to irritate the guy across from me?

Yes. Yes I can.