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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[–] 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 18 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 20 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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