Mike sent me this link to a short write up of a game convention I went to with my daughter Victoria last summer. She ended up doing better than me in the Puerto Rico tournement:

More details to be posted later, but I couldn't help but respond to a post a few lines down regarding the issue of whether younger players will be able to grasp PR and its intricacies with what happened in the first round of our EuroQuest tournament. Barbara, who was the 2004 World Champ, actually finished second to 11-year old Victoria Robertson, daughter of one of last year's finalists. So I think the answer to that question is yes, younger players can pick up the game just fine.

We taught her "Settlers of Catan" when she was 4 - our master plan to create a new gamer is working out :)