I recently received the game Dominion for Christmas and both my husband and I love it! We both play boardgames regularly and both rate this particular game HIGH. The games we love the most have simple game mechanics with subtle "key points" to learn and master with experience, providing a constant personal challenge and a sense of development the more you play the game. These types of games require that you maintain a flexible and nimble mind, allowing for a somewhat flexible strategy to win. Dominion has these attributes which in my judgement keeps the game ALIVE. It is comfortably simple in mechanics but exciting in the sense that you are always "tucking and rolling" with all the choices of play in your strategy (which should remain flexible...). Our favorite games include All-fives Dominoes, cribbage, now: Dominion, Lost Cities, and Odin's Ravens. I personally believe that playing good board games is a really good way relieve stress and relax but also it exercises the brain in a way that improves one's ability to take up new information, process this new info, and more effectively work with this new info improving a person's whole experience of life.

I have three boys (age 6, 10 and 12) with the oldest being high functioning autistic and we love playing board games. When I look for games to play, I have criteria I use: (1) I look for games that play at 10 years of age or younger, (2) The directions must be easy to explain, (3) It needs to play in under an hour. This game has all three criteria met... and it is fun.

I wasn't sure how the kids (and I for that matter) would react. But the first game went smoothly, and it only took a turn or two before we all knew what we were doing. As the game progressed, we were all sitting on the edges of our seats.

I am not generally a card game player as I love the magnificent Board games styles, but this game is extremely fun. My kids can't stop talking about this game.

I am the kind of person that loves games, however I never seem to get anyone else "on board" to play. I sit in front of my computer researching day in and day out for a new one that I can play (geek right). When they arrive I open them up, get the bits organized just so, read the instructions again and again and get ready for the next gaming time, which is very scarce to say the least. Anyway so I get dominion, mainly based on its hype I guess. I was once into playing the card game Magic somewhat, however I didn't really take well to it. So I thought I would give this a try, maybe I would like it. Let me say first this is definitely no magic, different than that. This game is great! I tried it our on my kids, usually this helps me understand the game, but usually I am explaining and explaining and my kids really don't "catch the wave" and I have to force them to play (boy I'm a meany). Not this game. They love to play dominion and they understood it right away. They are 9 and 12. I play my heart out and my kids beat the snot out of me. I started playing on the BSW website and probably have played 50 games, they go pretty quick and I win better than half of them. Then I think I'll try a game on my son and really wear him out. Nope, 3 games in a row I am defeated. Get this, I love every minute of it, even with all the bruises. You really don't know if your winning or not till its all over. It stays tense the whole time. Anyways I can't recommend this game enough. Now I can play a game at home and play it often.