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[GendoIkari]

3 player game, against a person who's played less than 10 games before, and a person who only plays very casually.

I opened Fishing Village / Island. I know Island is probably a weak opening, but I've always been a sucker for it. The others opened Fishing Village / Pirate Ship. One player got a couple more Pirate Ships, while the other stopped at 1. They both saw that Fishing Village was important, so they didn't last long at all. I won a 4-3-3 split by spending to grab the last one.

It wasn't long until I was down to 1 Copper left; having never bought any Silver/Gold. I got 4 Wharfs and 4 Markets; so before too long I was drawing my deck and producing every turn. A couple more Islands too; so I had no Estates left.

The heavy Pirate Ship player got 5 tokens and was using that to buy a Province about half the time. With time starting to run out, I use my to grab 2 Treasure Maps, to everyone's surprise. Next turn of course I activate them (and draw all the Golds immediately). I buy 2 Provinces and an Island 2 turns in a row. One of my Gold gets trashed by Pirate Ship; then I buy a Province and the last 4 Pearl Divers to end the game, 3 turns after having bought the Treasure Maps.

[Seprix]

I don't get the Spanish Inquisition part. Were your opponents questioning you about your Treasure Map buys?

[ConMan]

Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Their chief weapon is surprise ...

[GendoIkari]

I don't get the Spanish Inquisition part. Were your opponents questioning you about your Treasure Map buys?

What ConMan said. I hadn't thought about the fact that the joke wasn't obvious due to me not having mentioned "nobody expects" anywhere in the post. But now that we've explained the joke, it's funnier.

[ConMan]

I was actually hoping someone would either post a video showing the full reference, or at least point out that their chief weapons are surprise and fear. But that's probably starting to get a bit off-topic.

[dghunter79]

I was actually hoping someone would either post a video showing the full reference, or at least point out that their chief weapons are surprise and fear.

Amongst their weapons.

[Witherweaver]

Because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition. Their chief weapon is surprise ...

Well, surprise and fear.

[AdrianHealey]

And ruthless efficiency