I finally got a chance to play this game. Although it looked iffy that I would play a game for a while. I arrived a little late to the monthly meetup. Everyone had started a game already. After a while some more people joined and I tried reading the rules to Notre Dame but no one was paying attention. Thankfully, John had just finished his game and came over to explain the rules.
The game was interesting to play. Everyone has nine different action card in a draw deck. They draw three of them, pick one and send the remaining two to their left. Again, one card is picked and the remaining card is passed to the left. Now, out of the three cards in your hand (one you chose and two that were passed to you), you choose two to perform the action on the card. Sometimes the choices are tough and sometimes you have no good choice. You have a number of factors to balance during the game. You need to get cubes out of your supply to place on the board. You need to control the increasing population of rats (when the counter becomes too high, bad things happen). You need to get money during the game since money is tight. Oh, and by the way, you need to score some victory points!
With all of this random card drawing and useless card passing, there are some mitigating factors. You will go through your entire action deck three times during the game. And everyone will see the same majority of characters show up.