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| bio | website | filterjoe.com |
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| location | California | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | 12 hours ago | |
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I like a wide variety of games. My favorite is the card game of Bridge. In recent years I find myself far more often playing Settlers of Catan, and, lately, Ticket to Ride. I played a lot of Cosmic Encounter (EON Games version), Stratego, and Risk as a kid.
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Simplest bidding system for introduction into bridge First I've heard of MiniBridge but seems like a great Gateway Game to Bridge. Having had a number of negative and positive experiences trying to learn bridge, and then to teach people bridge, I'm of the mind that bidding is very hard for a beginner no matter how much you try to simplify - and quite a bit harder if the student doesn't yet understand much strategy for how to play hands. With Gateway games such as MiniBridge or Spades, you can at least learn hand play without the distraction of trying to learn a bidding system as well. |
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May 22 |
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Simplest bidding system for introduction into bridge rewrote awkward sentence |
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May 22 |
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May 22 |
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Simplest bidding system for introduction into bridge I extensively revised my answer to better answer your question now that you clarified - note that this revised answer is exactly how I taught my son to play when he was 5. |
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May 22 |
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Simplest bidding system for introduction into bridge new 1st section added to better address the question, minor changes to 2nd section to go along with 1st |
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May 22 |
answered | Simplest bidding system for introduction into bridge |
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May 15 |
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How can we remember to score points for claimed routes? clarification (3rd bullet) |
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May 15 |
answered | How can we remember to score points for claimed routes? |
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May 9 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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May 4 |
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What is optimal robber placement in Settlers? @Djaian I don't think you're the only one who thinks that way. However, despite the seemingly big luck factors in games like Settlers, Dominion, Stone Age, etc. it is interesting that the very best players win most of the time and consistently do well in tournament settings. Perhaps my favorite of all games is the card game of Bridge which is obviously a fairly deep game. That doesn't mean I can't explore Settlers to its strategic limits, which apparently I haven't yet found. |
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Apr 2 |
accepted | How can I minimize Black Market set up and clean up time? |
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Apr 1 |
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How can I minimize Black Market set up and clean up time? title typo (forgot ?) |
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Apr 1 |
asked | How can I minimize Black Market set up and clean up time? |
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Mar 12 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Mar 7 |
awarded | Popular Question |
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Feb 27 |
awarded | Notable Question |
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Feb 6 |
awarded | Nice Question |
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Feb 1 |
awarded | Nice Answer |
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Jan 29 |
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What is a good resource to discover new games? Agree that it's possible to find interesting comments intermixed among the hundreds (sometimes thousands) of reviews for a given game, especially ranks between 4-7. I've found it time consuming to tease out the better comments. For more popular games (anything in top 300 on BGG), there are usually many lengthy reviews from a variety of perspectives. Where it falls short is for unpopular games that have less than 5 reviews, possibly all from the same perspective of the typical "I own > 100 games including the latest shiny ones" BGG gamer. |
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Jan 11 |
accepted | How to use Chapel card to its fullest potential? |
