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| bio | website | filterjoe.com |
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| location | California | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
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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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Jul 6 |
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What can I do to avoid being stuck being able to do nothing in Settlers of Catan? typo |
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Jul 5 |
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What can I do to avoid being stuck being able to do nothing in Settlers of Catan? added a new idea in intro: experienced players advising newbies on initial settlement/road placement |
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Jul 4 |
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What can I do to avoid being stuck being able to do nothing in Settlers of Catan? improved and better balanced my comments on the importance of wheat/ore |
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Jul 3 |
answered | What can I do to avoid being stuck being able to do nothing in Settlers of Catan? |
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Jun 28 |
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Why are beginning to intermediate bridge players told to delay learning how to bid certain types of unusual hands? teaching tag added to serve same purpose as the removed beginner tag |
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Jun 28 |
reviewed | Reject suggested edit on What is optimal end play in Settlers? |
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Jun 23 |
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What is a Gateway Game? fixed grammar |
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Jun 18 |
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What techniques do high level SET players use when looking at a layout of cards? typo |
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Jun 17 |
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What is a Gateway Game? Thanks for such a thoughtful answer. Interestingly, using your way of thinking about it, I'd have to say that my top two gateway games for getting other people to advance to a more complex world of gaming have been Spades (gateway to Bridge) and Cosmic Encounter (to all kinds of games), yet neither is typically considered a Gateway game. That may just be a reflection of the fact that it's been many years since I've converted non-gamers into (more complex) gamers. |
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Jun 16 |
accepted | What is a Gateway Game? |
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Jun 16 |
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What is a Gateway Game? Made question more concise so as to better serve as a reference |
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Jun 15 |
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Is it better to go first or last in Vinci? added strategy tag |
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Jun 14 |
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What is a Gateway Game? @Hackworth I opened a hornet's nest today when I attempted to ask a question in answers-as-items-in-a-list form today and after lots of discussion (both Q and Meta), two people suggested I go back to this question and revise it to get a more precise answer. In retrospect I made an error by accepting your answer which was pretty good but still left me wondering about some games. Note that my (quickly closed) question did suggest two additions to the definition: (1) easy to explain and apply the rules and (2) doesn't take long to play (< 2 hours?). Maybe adding these 2 is enough? |
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Jun 14 |
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What is a Gateway Game? @Hackworth Your answer was a good start but I now realize I should not have accepted it because I still had several unanswered questions (see comments, and see closed question asking to list Gateway games). I've unaccepted the answer in hopes that you will add enough refinement (see my refined question) so that the resulting answer makes it very clear whether any given game is a Gateway game or not. Then I'll re-accept the answer. |
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Jun 14 |
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What is a Gateway Game? Reworded the question in order to obtain a more precise definition and examples to illustrate |
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Jun 14 |
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Which games qualify as Gateway Games? @Pat Please see the meta discussion Jefromi started on this question. I made a case there for why it might make sense to allow what I call "well defined list" questions on Board and Card Games, which is more restricted and well defined (and therefore more objective) then most recommendation questions. |
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Jun 14 |
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Which games qualify as Gateway Games? Note that I posted 3 answers to give a feel for the length and style of answer that I think could work for this. Would love to see more answers, and (if warranted) debate around each answer in the comments, where the debate is hopefully aimed at making the definition for Gateway games more precise. |
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Jun 14 |
answered | Which games qualify as Gateway Games? |
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Jun 14 |
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Which games qualify as Gateway Games? added an update related to the possibly incomplete definition of Gateway games |
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Jun 14 |
answered | Which games qualify as Gateway Games? |
