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Can anyone tell me what game these dice come from?
There are 7 d6 and a d10. Sides contain horseshoes, crossbows, swords, wings, faces, etc.
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Do great Scrabble players ever turn in their tiles?
Presumably you would trade in tiles if you thought you would get in one turn, after trading, more than what you'll get in the next two turns without trading.
But then, maybe you should make defensive plays even in some of those situations?
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Is there a viable corn-only strategy for Puerto Rico?
In the last Puerto Rico game I played I wound up with all corn. I tried to make this work with the following strategy:
Office + large market + small market for income
Harbor + wharf to ship all my corn for maximum points
This didn't work as well…
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How to use Chapel card to its fullest potential?
I've seen mentioned over and over that Chapel is a phenomenal card. But I have not seen detailed instructions as to how best to use it. As a relatively new Dominion player (<30 games, ~5 with Chapel card), I've experimented with it by trashing…
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How is the board game version of Words With Friends different from Scrabble?
I like to play a game called Words With Friends, which is a freenium version of Scrabble. I thought it was however functionally the same. However, I've just seen that Zynga, the creators of the game, have released a boardgame version.
Here is a…
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Does Doubling Season affect planeswalkers?
According to 306.5b,
A planeswalker is treated as if its text box included, "This permanent enters the battlefield with a number of loyalty counters on it equal to its printed loyalty number." This ability creates a replacement effect.
A ruling on…
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Are all jenga blocks of exactly same size?
If you ever play the game it's easy to conclude that blocks dimensions vary, otherwise the occurrence of loose blocks would be symmetric/regular when the tower initially built.
However, I was unable to find any reference to that fact anywhere in…
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How would you "study" Risk?
This question is not about a particular situation in the game, but rather how to study the game in the sense of if I wanted to learn Scrabble, I would spend time focusing on how certain uncommon letters can be used in words of length X or the goals…
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Where can I find a database with a list of all magic cards?
I am going to write a program to manage my library of Magic cards and I am looking for a database file or list of all of the cards that have been released. I know that the Gathering site is useful, but it limits the number of cards I can return in…
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Do face-down creatures have "the same name" as each other?
My opponent has three face-down morphs on the battlefield.
I play Sever the Bloodline targeting one of them.
Do we exile all three because they all have the "same name"? Or do we exile just one because "no name" indicates a lack of a characteristic…
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Clarifying house rules for Monopoly
It seems likely that I may be involved in a game of Monopoly soon. I'm not a big fan of Monopoly for a number of reasons, one of which is that part way through the game someone will reveal that they assumed we were playing with a house rule that no…
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How should I determine how many lands of each different color to put in my deck?
Situation: You've built your at least 2 color deck, know exactly what number of lands you want in it, but don't know how many to put in of each basic-land type.
How do pro-players figure this out? Obviously it seems like a deck that is about 50-50…
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What happens when a commander is exiled?
Let's say you have a commander on the field, and an opponent uses Sisters Of Stone Death to force your commander to block the sisters and then exiles your commander? Does it remain exiled, or does it go back to your commander zone?
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What is the resolution of tapping a blocking creature?
Let's say I have declared a blocker during the correct phase and during the activate abilities step I choose to tap the blocker to use its ability.
All the abilities resolve and now we move to the declare damage step.
I believe the resolution is…
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How can I make Wall of Roots's toughness 0 and still sacrifice it?
In the ruling about Wall of Roots is written the following:
2017-11-17: If you must sacrifice a creature to pay a casting or activation cost that also includes mana, such as that of Bubbling Cauldron’s abilities, you may put a -0/-1 counter on Wall…
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