So I am an extremely competitive board game/card game player. I love to learn a new game for the first time and completely crush all of my opponents. I play games with my family friends quite often. I joined a small group of women playing card games and I quickly let them know that when playing Uno and using a “draw 4” card, it is completely inappropriate to say “sorry.” You must own that play! This weekend my husband and I are scheduled to play games with some long time friends and two other couples that I don’t know and when our friends asked me if that was okay, I said I was all for it because it’s just more people I can completely dominate!

My husband always goes on and on about how I will win even when we play Unmatched with my brother Aaron, who has like 85 billion versions of the game (it’s seriously so fun, you should check it out–so many character options) because he thinks it’s funny that Aaron knows the game and all of the decks so well and I will still beat everyone, even when I play with a new character for the first time.

So, it was my husbands birthday recently (MARCH 14TH!!!!) and my brother wanted to get him a gift but wasn’t sure what to choose, so he took us shopping at a local nerd (endearing) store filled with model trains and a bunch of games called Hobby Town. For Christmas Aaron got my husband Israel a game called “Without Fail” which has been a bit hit, so we were thinking another game would be awesome. I helped look of course and I can across Splendor, a game my coworker talked about many many times, and that’s what we ended up getting. We have played it many times since then and it is so fun! Easy to learn, good strategy involved, and it doesn’t take a billion years to play (like Catan, haha).

Anyway, here’s the best part of the trip. The MATH part of this post. On the way out, I noticed a tray full of discount DND dice, which I of course called Platonic Solids (for the most part–I will have no part of that blasphemous kite-faced dice that fails to be one of the sacred 5 regular polyhedra–oh, you don’t have an equal number of edges concurrent at each vertex? Get out of here!). I carefully picked out a set of 5 beautiful dice, based on prettiness alone. I had to pay extra for the icosahedron (D20) but it was okay–I only paid $5 in all. When I went to pay I asked the cashier if anyone ever refers to the dice by their mathematical names, and he said sometimes. I asked if he wanted to know the names and I was so excited that I really don’t know what his answer was, and then I rattled off the names, in order of course: tetrahedron, hexahedron, octahedron, dodecahedron, & icosahedron. He said “wow, that was impressive” and I think he was being serious. And that’s the whole story–yeah, no moral here, just me telling about how much I love platonic solids.