Dominion

(trade, GIPF)

Bedroom

http://blog.golovatyi.info/2015/08/31/dominion/

Crack in a box! Bought it in late 2008, before I joined the Geek. Otherwise there would be about 50 more games of this next to "Plays" as my husband and I spent entire weekends playing game after game of Dominion.

Based on 1 play. I really enjoyed it and I had that "want to play again straight away" feeling. It did seem a little like a solitaire game, but then I probably wasn't looking too closely at what my opponents were doing. And we were playing a game with only "Militia" as an interaction card. Looking forward to playing again.

Update: Played again. Want to play some more!

I've got burned out on this a little bit lately but my wife loves it and we still have drunken maratahons until the wee small hours. Perhaps the most important design of the 'naughties'

The rating of 9 is for the Dominion family. This is the game that turned me into a board game geek. The Adventures expansion caused me to take a break from Dominion. I will still play it, but am willing now to play other new games first to give them a try. No longer am I wanting to spend an entire evening playing only Dominion.

Raw, unadulterated engine building in it's finest deck building form. By itself, the game clips right along at 2p, and the probability of deck drawing gives it enough of a risk management that the engine you create doesn't just sit and crank through until late in the game. I like Trains a little more for the deck building mechanic though as it uses an area influence map, but that suffers from a bad theme implementation (while this doesn't have that problem even if it's sort of pasted-on), leaving this as the deck builder of choice. That said, there is basically zero interaction in Dominion, and it's fundamentally about creating a card combo in your engine and running it as hard as possible. The game ultimate seems to flop over once people learn the combos.

Best on the tablet (even the fugly old edition that was free) where it takes almost no time at all to crank out a game.

I have played this game three times now and like it more and more each time I play it. The fact that there are so many different sets of cards and you don't play with all of them each time makes for a very replayable game. Every time we have played we have tried a different combination of cards and each time it feels like it is a new game.

The game is very easy to learn too. I taught my 13 year old daughter in about five minutes and she beat me the first time she played. Of course I was giving her hints along the way, which helped her a lot. My fifteen year old son has beat me both times we have played. I highly recommend it!