Dominion

I bought the Intregue and Cornicopia expansions for the card game Dominion during the week. Also I have played a couple of games of it with my new flatmates.

Its fun, you get to choose 10 "kingdom" for a common pool for which each player builds their deck throughout the game. The game ends if 3 card piles run out or all the provinces are bought and the winner has the most victory points in their deck at the end of the game. Provinces add the most victory points but other cards add some too.

I ended up playing till about 2 a.m. with my flatmates. Their is lots of versitility and variation as there are now (with expansions i have) about 65 types of kingdom cards, from which we randomly chose 10 to play with.

My new flatmates seem to be keen boardgamers, I already knew they were keen computer gamers. Seems promising, they have copies of risk, axis and allies, dnd boardgame and some others.

Just a side note tho, one of the guys seems really keen to play, but he seems overeager, like an adult trying to engage a shy kid. And it aggravates my paranoyer and inferiority complex, makes me feel patronised. However he seems socaily well adjusted for a gamer and maybe its the easiest way to build report despite initial negative response. One of my old housemates used to be fairly charismatic, successful at meeting new people, but made me feel a similar way. I read somewhere "Too much flattery tends to be the least badly recieved annoying habit". So maybe this is one of those things... the most successful, slightly offputting way to build report.