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Roll a 7, move robber AND play knight and move the robber again in the same turn
Lately while playing Catan I've been in situation of rolling a 7 and having a knight development card in my hand.
Is it legal for me to move the robber due to the 7 and then play a knight and move the robber again all in the same turn?
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How can I play around graveyard hate?
Graveyard-based strategies are common in casual and tournament MTG. The graveyard offers players easy ways to cheat on costs (e.g. Reanimator), grind out incremental advantage (e.g., Sun Titan decks, Zombies with Gravecrawler), set up infinite…
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Which tournament format best emphasizes winning (as opposed to avoiding last place)?
I've played enough Settlers that I think I could do well in a tournament. However, a cursory glance at upcoming tournaments suggests that most Settlers tournaments use a Swiss scoring system that distorts the incentives of the game significantly. To…
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In Pandemic, do certain setup and card order combinations make it impossible to win?
My family has won most of the Pandemic (2 or 3 player games) we've played, but we ran into one recently that I thought impossible to win due to the 2 and 3 cube infections being far from Atlanta, far from each other, and not accessible with any of…
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Is bribing off the robber a good addition to Settlers of Catan?
When I play Settlers of Catan with my family we sometimes allow bribing of the person placing the robber to not place it in a particular spot. Does anyone else play this way and if so do you find this a net benefit to the game?
Clarification: This…
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What are some good ways to transition to more complex strategic thinking games?
What are some strategies that people have used to introduce novice players (kids or spouses...) to increasingly complex strategic gaming?
Ticket to Ride is a big hit at our house - we'd like to move along the continuum to Risk and then onward toward…
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What is the best method to choose whom to lynch on the first day?
When playing Werewolf, my group and I always have the same problem: whom should we lynch on the first day?
In a group of ~10 people, we usually play 2 werewolves plus 2 "seers," who have one shot per night to guess one werewolf. On the first day,…
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Does Dixit need any modifications to play with 7, 8, 9, and 10 players?
I've enjoyed Dixit greatly with groups of 5 and 6, and I'm curious if it needs any rule variations to extend it further. I was thinking perhaps requiring at least 2 players to guess the correct card instead of just 1 when playing with 8 or more…
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What is this game with multiplying aliens and random weapons?
I remember playing a game with my parents when I was a kid (in the mid 1990s) where you played either as the crew on a ship being invaded by multiplying aliens or as the aliens themselves.
The board was a series of rooms on the ship with the…
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What's a good counter for Immortal Iron Dwarves?
In Small World: Underground, in our first game, one player managed to pick up the Immortal Iron Dwarves. I understand that the race/power combinations are not supposed to be balanced, but even once the other 3 of us realized how awesome Immortal…
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In Ticket to Ride USA, does obtaining longest continuous path of routes highly correlate with winning?
It has in the first 15 (mostly 2-3 player) games I've played so far but I'm wondering if this is true in general. Are we missing strategies? Is this less true in 4-5 player games?
Another way of asking the question is whether certain game winning…
Joe Golton
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How should your strategy in Power Grid change after about 10 to 12 cities?
This episode of The Little Metal Dog Show has an interview with Friedemann Friese where he talks about the design of the Power Grid: The Robots, and mentions that the robots can do well up to about 10 to 12 cities, but after that do very poorly…
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How does poison work in Commander?
In Commander / EDH players have 40 life. In normal magic 10 poison counters results in a player being eliminated. Is it still 10 poison counters in Commander / EDH?
In Commander / EDH a player is eliminated if they receive 21 commander damage. If…
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What is an efficient way to organize my magic collection?
Currently, I have a rare binder with all of my rares, and the rest of my cards are broken into several boxes by color, gold/multi color, and land. The problem with this methodology is that if I have a specific card in mind that's a common, I have…
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Enduring Angel - when does the "you lose the game" part apply?
Why does the Enduring Angel from Innistrad: Midnight Hunt has the following text:
Then if Enduring Angel didn't transform this way, you lose the game
When does it apply?
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