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Jul 8	comment	Can a king capture an opposing queen? "...meaning your nephew can take your king..." - I've never understood why chess doesn't last one move longer, with the aim being to capture the opponent's king. It would be much easier to explain that way.
Jun 20	comment	Are there any reputable chess openings which begin a4, b4, g4, or h4? I'm not quite sure where you intended White's pawn to go on the third move, but presumably not d5.
Jun 20	comment	How far can a knight travel without visiting the same square twice? Meta discussion migrated here: meta.boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/492/…
Jun 10	comment	What is “Go” in cribbage? We would say e.g. "30 for 1". We announce all counts like this (i.e. without stating what the score is for), the only difference with "go" is that we may announce the same count twice - e.g. "10", "20 for 2", "28", "29", "30 for 2", [knocks], "30 for 3".
Jun 9	comment	What is “Go” in cribbage? Actually I've always played with this rule - I've just never heard it called "Go" before.
May 27	comment	Whats a good way to handle multiple players bidding when playing by email? You can handle the blind bid without a third party if you use a cryptographic hash function (e.g. SHA-1). All players send the hash of their bid with some password (e.g. "adaf1621b49b6d32e4a66e74fc67312380d4caa6"). Once all the hashed bids are in then all players can reveal what their bid and password were (e.g. "5-Chimp"). Using a sealed bid website is probably the simplest option though!
May 20	comment	Name and official (?) rules for this cards game I half remembered I've played this game before and it was called 2s (but I'm not convinced that's the proper title). The game didn't seem to present the player with much in the way of choices, and so I got fed up with it!
May 20	comment	San Juan variant to balance prices Thanks! This is a really interesting suggestion. It looks like you can use something else as money and goods with this version? That would leave the cards free to be used as buildings.
May 12	comment	What is the “En passant” rule in chess? It's interesting to note that pawns used to be restricted to single space moves - and consequently there was no en passant rule: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawn_%28chess%29#History
Apr 28	comment	Making 6H (declarer: 54, AKQJTx, -, 98765) +1 Very clever!
Apr 27	comment	Making 6H (declarer: 54, AKQJTx, -, 98765) I haven't done a thorough check, but I think this is impossible when W has (T9876,9873,Q932,-) and E has (QJ,-,AK87654,Q432). NS will lose to the QC at some point, and so can't afford to lose any other tricks. This means they must clear out the trumps to start with, and S is only left with one trump as a winner. Consequently N will get stuck with the lead and lose one more trick in spades or diamonds. Have I made a mistake here?
Apr 8	comment	Palafico round in Perudo This sounds like a sensible interpretation. I guess the key thing is to agree the rule clearly before the game (or even at the start of the first palafico round would be sufficient).
Mar 10	comment	What are great gamer games that are still great for uncompetitive groups. We've had plenty of arguments in Bohnanza of the kind "Why did you give that to him rather than me..." Maybe that's just us though.
Mar 9	comment	What are great gamer games that are still great for uncompetitive groups. There are some house rules that can make the game nicer still. I think the nastiest aspects of settlers are the robber and the monopoly cards.
Mar 7	comment	Clarifying house rules for Monopoly +1 Auctioning everything before the start of the game sounds like a very interesting idea. I think it might change the game significantly from Monopoly, but that might be good :-) Presumably there isn't enough money to sell all properties at their reserve price.
Mar 2	comment	How do you handle two epidemics in a row in pandemic? We would handle the epidemics separately (as in Kempeth's answer). Consequently there would be a discard pile for the second epidemic - it would consist of just the drawn city card (and unless there are some special events in play this would cause an outbreak).
Feb 26	comment	What would be a good set of topics for a quiz game? Pop culture is a very broad category and questions could come under the subject headings such as "media", "music" or "art. Home improvement sounds like what I did in CDT (craft, design and technology) lessons.
Feb 22	comment	Does anyone have a way to modify Ticket to Ride to accommodate six people? +1 Good suggestion for fixing the total number of carriages. Re. Balance issues: I would expect an extra player will make it harder to complete routes. Although I doubt this will upset the game-play vastly, it might make the game less 'satisfying'.
Feb 21	comment	Surveyor's Map in Agricola Farmers of the Moor Excellent - thank you! This is a new addition to the compendium in version 9.0 - we checked our version 8.0 copy.
Feb 17	comment	How is Settlers of Catan different when playing with the 5-6 player expansion? @Andrew However in a 5-6 player game then you can build when it's not your turn (in fact on every other player's turn). In the 3-4 player game it is reasonable to pick central hexes that cover all the resources, OR focus on one type of good and get the port for it. IMO, in the 5-6 player game the latter tactic is always trumped by the first.