April 4: "Somalian Pirates Weeeeeee!"

After spending a few hours outside at the family compound for Easter, we went to our weekly board game night at our friend's house. We brought two games, Wingspan and Dominion, and the five of us played both. We played Wingspan first, and I finally won (so my record is now 1-4)! Then we played Dominion. Dominion is a fun deck building game, and we have several expansions for it. To play the game, you have to choose 10 types of cards to play with (and because of all our expansions, we probably have 100 choices), so to make things easier, I've included a small notebook in the game box to record combinations of the 10 cards that have worked for games we've played in the past. Some of the cards are pirate-themed, so one of the first combos we ever created was all about pirates, and we called it "Somalian Pirates We!" after a South Park quote. That was years ago. Since then, we have made several revisions to it, and last night we played a version of it that we last played in April 2020 called "The Revised Somalian Pirates We Version 4.0". 

It was a delightful game; everyone enjoyed the combination of cards and how they worked and interacted together (especially my husband, and I delight in delighting him). There was one card that didn't quite fit so I made a note in the notebook for a substitute suggestion for the next time we play. One of our friends was able to build contraptions with the cards (usually you play one, maybe two or three actions if you are lucky on your turn, but this friend was playing 8-10 actions on a turn because he had picked cards that went so well together). My husband commented that we should change the name of this version of the game to "Somalian Pirates Weeeeeeeeeee!" which was hilarious and also delighted me so. The final scores were super close: 36-34-33-30-27 (my husband got 34 and I got 33), and close games are always the best, because it doesn't really feel like anyone was a big loser. 

In case you are curious and you also play Dominion, here is the card list for "Somalian Pirates Weeeeeeee!":

Treasure Map
Treasury
Pawn
Fishing Village
Wharf
Band of Misfits
Remodel
Smugglers (but we are suggesting the substitute: Storeroom)
Haven
Plaza

With delight,

♥Jamie