Mother-in-law gaming tonight.
Got in a four player game (with two newbies) of Arkham Horror using Yig as the GOO. Ended up closing all of the open gates (sealing five of them) for the win. Nothing too exciting along the way and I don't think the newbies enjoyed it all that much.
You should try adding some of the expansions for a little added complexity. And, for god's sake, always read the cards out loud, including any flavor text! It's a flavor text kind of game!
Haven't played it in ages as five of the members of my old Ameritrash gaming group opened a brewery, and now I'm lucky if I see them once a month, and
that's usually
at the brewery! We used to have epic 8-player Arkham Horror parties. Sometimes we had 13 or 14 people show up and had to split into games of AH and Mansions of Madness. Great for Halloween parties.