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It's Tuesday 11/10/2026. Hey, What's Going On! (lemmy.world)
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The speakers on my work laptop stopped working. Instead of sending me a new one, I have been doing a stupid dance trying to get a technician to show up to to fix them. Now I get to spend an entire day in the office with my boss, not actually getting my real work done. yippee.

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[–] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

I have a day off and just spending the time playing boardgames with my husband. Soon we'll reheat some curry and naan bread from yesterday. (Homemade, tikka masala style but with soya chunks and chicpeas)

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

    boardgames

    So tragically non-specific. What are you playing?

    And what 2-player games do others recommend?

    [Hive is hella fun if you have chess mind.]

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (5 children)

    Not very good for two, and difficult to explain in English, but this older (~2005) promotional board game made by a celebrity gossip magazine. Link to a picture online. And then some Hardcore Uno, also not ideal for two and since I lost pretty bad, we ended with some memory cards as the hubby has no memory. So not fully boardgames I guess but non-screen at least lol.

    Thank you for the suggestion, I have been trying to find good games for only a few people as we are not very social and live in a very tiny, remote town. I have seen that Hive game somewhere, maybe at a youth center or library? I want to try it, hopefully I can find a copy to test it out.

    Maybe Carcassonne? That I have played as a kid, so I don't remember fully. I hope the hubby likes it since that's what he'll get for Christmas lol. Does Monopoly work for two? I have never ever played it. I saw a Cheaters edition somewhere and that sounds fun.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 day ago* (4 children)

    That picture doesn't tell me too much about the game, but I imagine there are probably all kinds of fun games you can make with celebrity images and a printer....

    There is one game I vaguely remember which was so popular it was made into an online game... I think it was called Spy. I think it was based around hidijng the identity of spies..... someone help me out here.

    Hive is a set of hexagonal tiles and the game is much like chess, but the pieces all have to stick together, so there is no board. It's not as deep as chess--I imagine people begin to stalemate after a certain level--but it's hella fun and tactile.

    I love Carcassone and I don't think it would be that much fun for 2 people, but it could be. My problem with it is mostly that memorizing the cards gives you a huge advantage, and I don't like memorizing.

    Maybe swing by a game store next time your in the city; some of my favorite games I've played have Game of the Jahr printed on them somewhere, so you're in the right place.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    That game is like.. Three or four layers/rounds with different question cards and the one who collects one of them all first is the winner. Qustions are like "who was in the front of the 8/2005 magazine?" or "who dated who back in November 2006?" Quite difficult, if you were less than 10 years old at the time. We played it once with my mother and she sweeped us under the table. I plan on memorizing the questions..

    I found like the Carcassonne "stone age" edition, from 2006. I actually owned the same board back then, played it a lot. I think it is like shorter/simpler than the OG so probably should work for two.

    My husband also does MtG so I'll probably need to learn that too. The cards are pretty, but I still don't know where you get the mana..

    I do like visiting game stores, living in a tiny town it's so nice to get to go explore. I have been also thrifting, people often sell one or twice played games for very fair prices! I'm slowly trying to build up an offline personal "library" with games, books and all sorts of crafts, it does good for my head.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 hours ago

    Oh, MTG is great one-on-one. And it's easy to learn--I've done it several times!

    Studying trivia is valid. If you really want to nerd out on it, look into making your own digital Anki flashcards. It's fun to harvest the information, make the cards, and just spend a few minutes every day quizzing yourself.

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  • [–] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 child)

    My husband also does MtG so I’ll probably need to learn that too.

    You and your husband might really enjoy Dominion and its many expansions. It's sort of like a game of Magic, but you're building your deck as you go.

    The cards are pretty, but I still don’t know where you get the mana…

    Mana comes from lands; there's usually one at the end of every booster pack. On your turn, you can play one land card for free, so your ability to cast spells grows as the game progresses. Different colors of land give you different colors of mana. Of course, because it's Magic, it gets crazy pretty quickly: there's two-color lands, three-color lands, lands that turn mana into a different color, lands that you can use to get abilities, lands that turn into monsters, monsters that act like land...

    My wife and I play Commander (popular variant with special rules and more randomness) and the pre-constructed decks that come out for every set are pretty solid. You get everything you need to play, and you can swap cards out if you want.

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