The Syndicate

my housemates and I sometimes rent games from our local board game store (they let you rent games for 3 nights for $5 it's pretty great for checking out new games or sometimes old favorites that we don't own, like Tokaido and TTR), and this weekend we got Photosynthesis which is this awesome game about growing trees!! it's really beautiful and it has cool mechanics involving sunlight angles moving around and neighboring trees casting shadows. Definitely recommend it!

It's pretty hard to rank the dominion sets, they all have some really good cards. Intrigue, Seaside and Prosperity are all good for sure. I know the newest one that came out (Adventures) has some really crazy mechanics, but I haven't gotten the chance to play it yet. There is an online client at playdominion.com where you can purchase the sets to play online, or just play with other people who have them.

some of my favorites are Dominion (all expansions), Splendor, Carcassonne, Ascension, Nexus Ops, Nothing Personal, Tokaido, King of Tokyo, Smallworld, Puerto Rico... and that's just to name a few I've played a lot of things thanks to my nerdy friends