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Apr 15 |
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Can a tank attack across water within the same space (Germany to UK)? What do you mean 'same space'? Germany and the UK are two different spaces, so they're not in the same space... |
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Apr 1 |
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What are the differences between the four editions of The Settlers of Catan base game? My 24 year old Kosmos edition with German cards and separately printed English translation of the rules has the 'noone gets any if there's not enough for everyone' rule... |
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Apr 1 |
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How can I minimize Black Market set up and clean up time? I've always used option #3, and it works fine. If you accidentally get a card you shouldn't, just draw another. |
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Mar 6 |
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Am I at legal risk if I use a mechanism from another game in my own design? Apparently you're not familiar with U.S. Patent 5,662,332 (google.com/patents?vid=5662332) |
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Feb 14 |
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What are the rules differences in Empires in Arms? These claims match my vague recollections of having played the ADG version many years ago. |
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Jan 14 |
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Poker texas holdem combinations: tie or not tie? For pairs, highest pair wins; kickers only matter if players have the same pair. |
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Jan 2 |
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Where can I find good tile layouts for Settlers of Catan? @Justin: Sounds more like the generator deliberately weeds out those setups where its better to go first, leaving just those where it is best to go last... |
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Dec 18 |
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Buying houses and selling hotels in a housing shortage @warren: only if you have other things to invest your cash in. Otherwise, a 4th house will at worst cost you $25 if you're forced to sell it. Buying hotels may end up costing you $375 and leaving you unable to get back to the 3 house level, even if you only need $1 |
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Dec 17 |
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Buying houses and selling hotels in a housing shortage An interesting ruling. Means you pretty much NEVER want to buy hotels on the light blues or dark purples -- build up to 4 houses and stay there. |
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Dec 10 |
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What happens when you need to tear-down a hotel but no houses are in the bank in Monopoly? the OR means you normally have the choice, but obviously if there aren't enough houses, you can't take the choice of selling one house at a time and must instead sell "All hotels on one color-group at once" |
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Nov 30 |
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In the Great Dalmuti, should I be attempting to improve my seat position or shoot for the win? I don't understand -- every hand you're trying to go out as soon as possible, as that gets you the highest score AND the best position for next hand. So the strategy for scoring more is the same as for going for a better seat. Perhaps you're asking when you should be targetting a particular player (trying to prevent them from going out) as they are in the lead rather than trying to go out yourself? |
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Nov 19 |
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Can I decide not to use all the power of a plant in Power Grid? Why would you want to? The only effect would be to give you less money, and more money is never a disadvantage in Power Grid. |
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Nov 14 |
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Can you throw animals into the stewpot if you don't have enough pasture room for any of them? Change eat to cook and this post makes more sense. You don't need to eat them immediately, you can keep the cooked food around as long as you would like. |
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Nov 9 |
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Is there a limit on how good you can get at Hearts? Its another result from game theory that there is NO OPTIMAL STRATEGY for MULTIPLAYER (3 or more sides) games. There's not even a good definition of what "optimal" might mean for such games, as players may collude. As hearts is such a game (the 4 players have independent winning conditions), there is no optimal strategy. |
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Nov 7 |
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Minimum bid rule for Monopoly auctions @warren: if the property will sell for more than face value, you should have bought it without putting it up for auction. Auctions only occur when the property isn't worth face value, so they generally go for less than face value. |
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Oct 25 |
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What are the most busted cards in Agricola? With maypole, if someone else knocks it over, don't you automatically get the points (as 'the player' did not knock it over) |
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Jul 27 |
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Can you place units in an Industrial Complex the turn you place it? Better, but doesn't really add anything to the existing answer. The key point is that if you don't own an industrial complex in a space at the start of your turn, you can't build there at the end of the turn. Things you do in your turn can't change that, and the quoted rule says that pretty clearly. |
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Jul 27 |
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Can you place units in an Industrial Complex the turn you place it? There's nothing in the rules to suggest that you can't build a complex in one space and build units at another complex in a different space, all on the same turn, which is what you seem to be suggesting here. |
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Jul 23 |
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Any tactical skirmish or dungeon crawler board game that allows models to change other models positions for reaction fire opportunities? @PatLudwig: This is NOT a recommendation question -- its a request for games that use a particular mechanic. Whether a game uses a mechanic in its rules qualifies as a specific fact and is not a recommendation for or against such games... |
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May 7 |
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Setup for more than 4 players in Dominion? IMO it works better if you ALSO add extra Duchy cards (match the number of provinces) AND add an extra kingdom pile per player over 4. |
