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Feb 16 |
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How is Settlers of Catan different when playing with the 5-6 player expansion? The ports are much less valuable as you can't use them during the building phases (between each players turns). Consequently if you're saving up three-of-a-kinds to trade on your turn then you're much more likely to be hit by the robber. |
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Feb 15 |
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Largest Army in Settlers of Catan: Cities and Knights Hmm! The depressing thing is that we played the game correctly then - it took a g e s :-) We'll have to play with the suggestions from here next time: boardgames.stackexchange.com/questions/2565/… |
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Feb 11 |
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Cupboard size for storing board games We've ended up getting some storage units that look quite like these. Thanks for the suggestion. |
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Feb 11 |
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Cupboard size for storing board games +1 Thanks for the useful detail - the example shelves in particular. |
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Feb 11 |
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Is it possible to play two cards in the same field on the first step of a turn in Bohnanza ? I think you're right that there's no possible advantage. However there may be a case where you've already seen all the other 5 garden beans (for example), and so there would be no difference between overplanting from your hand, or overplanting from somewhere else. |
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Feb 1 |
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Interaction between Carcassonne: Bridges, Castles, and Bazaars and other expansions Thanks - this is the only answer to give a published set of rules (other than the rules that come in the expansion). I'm actually quite surprised that the makers have written comprehensive rules - most of their efforts have been half-hearted at best ;-) |
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Jan 11 |
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Must a player take a jump in checkers? I think you only found one organisation because the rest of the world calls the game something else ;-) Here's a list of others: fmjd.org/?p=all |
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Jan 11 |
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Ticket to Ride Strategies I think "build the long trains" applies to all the TTR games - building a train of length 4 is better than two of length 2. I think the longest continuous track is a separate issue. |
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Jan 10 |
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How Unethical Is A Purely “Blocking” Move In Ticket To Ride? I think it's more similar to playing a blocking road in Settlers. See this discussion for more: boardgamegeek.com/thread/68652/the-infamous-road-block-strategy |
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Dec 1 |
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Condensing Carcassonne & expansions into a single box +1 Really neat. I would love to see a net of the smaller boxes you've made - it's quite hard to visualise what you've done. |
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Nov 27 |
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Condensing Carcassonne & expansions into a single box I don't think we have "check boxes from the bank" in the UK. I've tried googling, but I get lots about check boxes of another kind. Could you describe the dimensions of these? |
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Nov 25 |
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What is a good opening in Blokus? +1 Thank you for this detailed answer! I wasn't expecting the openings to have names :-) |
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Nov 25 |
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What is a good opening in Blokus? +1 Thank you for the suggestion - I will have to try this opening. |
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Nov 25 |
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What is a good opening in Blokus? I'm guessing that you mean V, W and Z played in the orientations to get towards the middle of the board? While searching for an answer I saw somewhere that someone was suggesting starting with V then W in a heart shape, which seemed counter-intuitive to me. |
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Nov 24 |
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What is a good opening in Blokus? The names for the pentominoes are fairly standard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomino). The names for the tetrominoes are almost standard (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetromino) (the 'O' is referred to as square above). The other four tiles are mainly distinguished by size, I guess the convention could have used the tromino naming convention for consistency (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tromino). |
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Nov 22 |
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What games are suitable for a large number of people with only a pack of playing cards? Good suggestion - we know a similar game by the name cheat (+1) |
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Nov 5 |
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Rock-paper-scissors type randomizers I think this comparison between Diplomacy and RPS is very interesting. There must be some situations in Diplomacy which are equivalent to RPS, and many others which are like a much more complex version of RPS with more players. The discussions in Diplomacy are similar to the game banter in RPS. (+1) |
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Nov 5 |
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Game end in Shark Brilliant! Thanks for the addition. We already play the "Rule of 7", but I wasn't sure about the maximum share price. |
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Nov 4 |
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What games are suitable for a large number of people with only a pack of playing cards? Wow - the express version looks great for a group of new players. Thanks for the suggestion. |
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Nov 3 |
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What games are suitable for a large number of people with only a pack of playing cards? Yes that would be fine. I was looking for card games that can be played on the fly with a random collection of people. Probably finding a pack of cards per player would be asking too much, but I think most people have a couple of decks of cards in their house. |
