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Dominion, if you're not familiar with it, is a deck-building card game. You start off with a deck of ten cards; each turn you draw five cards, play them, and buy a card to add to your deck. Some cards give you the coins that you use to buy more cards; others do things like let you draw more cards or buy an extra card. Your ultimate goal is to buy cards that have victory points on them, because that's how you win the game.
The base game has 26 different "kingdom cards" in it. You pick ten of those to play with each time you play the game, so there are a lot of different ways to play the game. You play with one set of cards and get to know how they interact, and then you swap out half of a really good combo, or one card that countered another card, and now it's a very different game. So it has a lot of replay value.
There are now thirteen expansions, most of them as big or bigger than the base set. And you can use cards from any of them.
I did the math. There are 208,693,818,083,123,000,000,000,000 (2.09e26) configurations of the game.
That number is 208-some septillion, which is about 3,000 times the estimated number of stars in the entire observable universe.
So what I'm saying is, if you're looking for a pastime, it's got a lot of replay value.
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This post brought to you by my desire to post something just to break the long dry spell, even if I haven't mustered up the wherewithal to post about life in general. (Short version: things are fine, better now than before the change in administrations, but the pandemic still sucks.)
The base game has 26 different "kingdom cards" in it. You pick ten of those to play with each time you play the game, so there are a lot of different ways to play the game. You play with one set of cards and get to know how they interact, and then you swap out half of a really good combo, or one card that countered another card, and now it's a very different game. So it has a lot of replay value.
There are now thirteen expansions, most of them as big or bigger than the base set. And you can use cards from any of them.
I did the math. There are 208,693,818,083,123,000,000,000,000 (2.09e26) configurations of the game.
That number is 208-some septillion, which is about 3,000 times the estimated number of stars in the entire observable universe.
So what I'm saying is, if you're looking for a pastime, it's got a lot of replay value.
( Details under the cut )
This post brought to you by my desire to post something just to break the long dry spell, even if I haven't mustered up the wherewithal to post about life in general. (Short version: things are fine, better now than before the change in administrations, but the pandemic still sucks.)
