Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Puzzles and Challenges => Solo Challenges => Topic started by: AdamH on June 25, 2013, 11:13:58 am
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From this thread... (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8608.0)
Disclaimer: I couldn't really get into solo challenges before, so I probably won't be participating, but I think it might be cool to see the results of this, so here we go:
How many Menageries can you activate in a row? Choose any kingdom you want, make it a solitaire game, and it has to be Turn 20 or earlier, let's say.
"In a row" means you may not do anything at all in between activating your Menageries. No playing, discarding, nothing else with any of your cards. Play a Menage, it activates, immediately play the next one, etc. KC/TR/Golem/Herald chains are fine before the first Menagerie, but not in the middle.
"Activated" means you must draw all three cards from every Menagerie or it doesn't count, so make sure you have enough cards in your deck!
Example: KC+Menagerie is three Menageries. You can play another one immediately afterward and that counts as 4.
Menagerie + KC+Menagerie is still three Menageries.
I'm open to rules tweaking and/or clarification for the next 24 hours.
I guess you all are supposed to PM me a log or something, right? So yeah, that.
Hopefully we'll get some submissions on this. I wonder how many in a row we can all pull off...
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Isn't it more fun if people post their logs here? That way we know the number to beat...
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With any luck I'm hoping to post a base line tonight that people can compare against.
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Is KC-KC-Menagerie-Menagerie-... allowed? Technically KC is being played after the first Menagerie, but it doesn't come from your hand.
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mmm... good point.
Let's say that's allowed, since we cap pretty early without that. Let's also explicitly say that BoM-as-Menagerie counts as Menagerie
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I've set a base line, something for you all to shoot for. There is definitely room for improvement, even without the use of Black Market, I just set a goal and shot for it.
First of all, the goal is twelve activated Menageries in a row.
I made a video of me doing it too. The link to the game log is in the description of the video and I posted a helpful comment that links you to important times in the video. If you watch this video you will probably be spoiled all to crap so beware of that.
SPOILER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS7RJYP67Lo)
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I've set a base line, something for you all to shoot for. There is definitely room for improvement, even without the use of Black Market, I just set a goal and shot for it.
First of all, the goal is twelve activated Menageries in a row.
I made a video of me doing it too. The link to the game log is in the description of the video and I posted a helpful comment that links you to important times in the video. If you watch this video you will probably be spoiled all to crap so beware of that.
SPOILER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS7RJYP67Lo)
Off the top of my head, switching out Vault for Death Cart so you have Ruins will raise the number, if you start with KC-KC-Men...
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I'm aware that this isn't the best I can do. As a matter of fact I already have a submission that does better ;) . I was just trying to set a baseline so people have a starting point.
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Oh boy, I really wish I had cards so I could try this...
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If you buy the cards just because of this, I think Goko should give me a cut. You know, a little referral bonus? Yes?
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for sure, except that I'm not gonna buy cards :P
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>:(
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So it's been a while, I thought I'd put a bow on this even though I only got submissions from one person, who is the winner by default :)
FIRST PLACE AND WINNER OF THE MENAGERIE CHALLENGE
SheCan'tSayNo (http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130626/log.505d732a51c359e6597efeb8.1372279828882.txt)
On T16 the goal is effectively reached, but with so many cards, Goko couldn't really display them all properly and clicking the right one was difficult. But it's legit. The cards played weren't duplicates and they didn't draw or discard any cards.
Turns out that Herald "solved" this one, which I didn't forsee when I first made the challenge, but oh well.
Thanks everyone for your interest and to SCSN for your submission. I at least had fun making the video :)
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Thanks :) I enjoyed it, though the execution was a bit tedious.
For those who can't be bothered to manually count: I activated 19 Menageries in a row, although near the end I had to play a few (non-duplicate) other cards in between because Goko didn't allow me to click the BoM due to my gigantic handsize.