OK, to conclude:
It snowed, it rained, it snowed again.
The roads remained crappy, but games made me happy.
On to other things.
I've had an awesome week of gaming, although I've just been playing the same 3 games over and over. I picked up Ticket to Ride - Nordic Countries a few weeks ago, and it is a really quick and fun 2-3 player version. Yspahan is still getting heavy play. The biggest winner has to be Dominion, the new It game for the cognoscenti.
In Dominion, you essentially build a deck of cards as you play. You start with a mix of 10 Treasure cards and Victory cards, worth 1 each. On the table, there are Treasure and Victory cards of different denominations, as well as Action cards. These may be bought on your turn. You simply deal yourself five cards out of your deck, play an Action card (if you have one), and then purchase any available card that you can afford with the Treasure you have in your hand. Then, your entire hand (including all of the Treasure you just spent) and your newly purchased card go into your discard pile. When your deck is depleted, you shuffle your discard pile (now containing new cards), and deal from that deck. Thus, you don't lose the Treasure that you spend, and your deck gets larger and larger throughout the game.
You don't want to start buying Victory cards too early, since they are worthless until the end of the game. Since you get only five cards in any hand, you want mostly Treasure and Action cards in any given deal. Some cards let you draw more cards into your hand, give you additional Treasure to spend, or add to the number of action cards you can play, or otherwise allow you to alter the hand that you're dealt. It's incredibly addictive, and plays well with 2, 3 or 4.
Anyway, play it if you get a chance. It's the real deal. There's also a Zombie re-theme available on Boardgamegeek. I gotta go, as the whole Bradley family has appeared at the table here, and I'm being rude. Christmas rude. It's the worst kind.\
It's a very special Christmas photo with E, Stephen, and Christine
Be nice to each other. We miss you.
Emilie bought me Dominion for my bday after we played it at K&M's! It's brilliant. "The real deal" as you put it.
ReplyDeleteIt's truly "wheeeeeee!!!" level fun.
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