Lost Cities is a simple little 2-player card game, with a heck of a lot of luck. But the oversize cards are very pleasing to handle, the illustrations are attractive, and the game is addictive in that potato chip kind of way. And so it is with evil glee that I invite you to get sucked in as I have to Lost Cities online. The site presents a very faithful version of the game, complete with scans of the cards. The site also hosts a version of Schotten Totten, a game similar to Lost Cities but with perhaps more scope for strategy. It's a bit harder to get a ST game going, however-- most of the players are there for Lost Cities.
The nail in the coffin is that it maintains rankings, so with every game your rating rises and falls. I've always been a sucker for games with high score boards-- that carrot of inching up the list and trying to achieve a meta-goal is hard to resist. Someday I'll reach number one on the leader board. Someday...