{"id":16451,"date":"2022-11-20T22:14:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16451"},"modified":"2022-11-22T22:26:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T21:26:08","slug":"daily_2846_-_playing_small_world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/11\/20\/daily_2846_-_playing_small_world\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2846 – playing Small World<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWe’ve been saying for weeks, if not months, that we really should play a longer board game, with all of us. In the evenings, the kids are often busy with schoolwork or online games with friends. Whenever we’ve agreed on a time for a weekend, something always turns up. Adrian has a sleepover; Ingrid’s friends want to go to town…<\/p>\n

This time we set the time a week in advance and decided that we’d go ahead no matter what. Whoever is not at home loses out. No postponing.<\/p>\n

And of course Adrian was invited to a sleepover and was near tears about having to choose. The FOMO is strong with these ones.<\/p>\n

But then we played Small World<\/i>, which is one of our all-time favourites, and had a lot of fun, and the anguish of losing out on a sleepover was forgotten. I like the rule that this game has about keeping scores hidden until the end – this way everyone can believe that they have a chance, all the way to the end.<\/p>\n

Eric won, by picking a new race in the very last round, with 5 bonus coins because the other players had been skipping that race so many times. I came in second place thanks to my army of skeletons, who very determinedly harvested their enemies’ bodies. Ingrid steamrollered her neighbours repeatedly, first with amazons and then with giants. Adrian’s trolls bullied my sorcerers because my skeletons had previously harvested too many of his tritons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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