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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames VI

« on: July 14, 2018, 10:17:35 am »

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

why shouldn't the spymasters be allowed to see the discussion? i've only played codenames in person (words version) with more than two people per team, and it works fine

I think it's also undesirable to have simply have something like playesr choosing between two options, and thus telling the spymaster what their next guess will be.
I expect a counterfactual discussion among spies ("if he wanted tit excluded, he'd given Mammals 3 and not Animals 3"), and there's a fine line between that kind of discussion and "well, if he really wanted us to pick pot, golf, and nail, he'd surely had given Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious 3". I am not in the strongly preferrence camp but I can see the point.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 4, Year 1, Summer, Turn 1, Watno)

« on: July 14, 2018, 10:14:47 am »

Sorry.


Swap Joiner and Clayburner.
Make 3 planks.
Build 2 Storage Sheds.
Take Brick at Diplomat

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General Discussion / Re: 2018 FIFA World Cup

« on: July 13, 2018, 12:09:12 pm »

tbf in 2014 when Germany won it was worse.

FTFY

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Dominion Online at Shuffle iT / Re: Missing auto-plays

« on: July 11, 2018, 12:55:18 pm »

Scrying Pool: Always leave cards previously placed on top on top when revealed again.

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Rules Questions / Re: Duplicate + spirits

« on: July 09, 2018, 05:53:21 am »

Note that there are edge cases where you do want to call Duplicate when gaining an Imp, for example to get it in play to power up your Horn of Plenty.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames VI

« on: July 05, 2018, 02:27:26 pm »

I'm not really available until Tuesday.
If we go for more than 4 players, I'd strongly prefer discussion between teammates to be in spoiler tags with the spymasters not being allowed to read them.

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Other Games / Re: Codenames etiquette

« on: July 02, 2018, 03:19:41 pm »

But then I double checked the Codenames rulebook, and... it seems that those people are technically correct.

If a spymaster gives an invalid clue, the
team's turn ends immediately. As an additional
penalty, the other team's spymaster may cover
one of his or her words with an agent card
before giving the next clue.

But if no one notices that a clue is invalid, it
counts as valid.

So they are playing within the rules when they try to give an invalid clue... if it were completely outside of the rules, then you wouldn't have a penalty for it; games don't generally need to give rules for what to do when you don't do what the rules tell you to do.

Well more technically, they are allowed to give an invalid clue intentionally, but then their turn immedaitely ends. The part where "no one notices" clearly doesn't apply.

Btw, i guess this is a good place to mention that we're looking for one more to continue PBF codenames: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=14888.msg759980#msg759980

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Codenames VI

« on: June 23, 2018, 12:55:24 pm »

anyone feel like some more of this?

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, Year 5, Winter, Turn 1, Watno)

« on: June 23, 2018, 09:40:16 am »

Swap Clay Burner and Hunting Lodge Builder.
Make 2 bricks.
Build 2 Storage Sheds.
Upgrade them to storage Houses.
Change the Storage Houses to Theaters.
(activate them in priduction phase)

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, Year 5, Summer, Turn 1, Watno)

« on: June 20, 2018, 03:47:37 pm »

Take a brick at Theater builder (trashing another wood)
Build Community Hall.
Go to upper left market, take a Cloth.

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Other Games / Re: The Mind

« on: June 20, 2018, 01:07:16 pm »

I was really surprised I enjoyed it as well.

Btw, I was totally counting.

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General Discussion / Re: 2018 FIFA World Cup

« on: June 18, 2018, 12:12:43 pm »

I feel like there's been a lot more draws and own goals this world cup than normal.

3 draws from 11 matches doesn't sound out of the ordinary.

That's true. Most of these matches have been pretty low-scoring. IIRC only 2 of the matches played so far have had one team scoring 3 or more points. Usually by now you have at least a couple of matches where one of the teams has scored 4 or 5 or at least 3 points.

Isn't 2 a couple?

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, End of Year 4)

« on: June 13, 2018, 04:25:45 pm »

Weaver above Community Hall builder
Coalburner between Joiner and Loam(?)burner
Stables Builder between Loamburner and Hunting Grounds (?) builder

Swap the factories to green again.

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, Year 4, Winter, Turn 1, Watno)

« on: June 11, 2018, 01:10:52 pm »

Yeah, no problem

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, Year 4, Winter, Turn 1, Watno)

« on: June 10, 2018, 12:39:49 pm »

Swap Clay Burner and Riverbank
Make 2 bricks at Clay burner
Take 1 coal at Clay Pit
Make 3 iron (using coal for all)

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, Year 4, Summer, Turn 1, Watno)

« on: May 29, 2018, 05:29:51 pm »

Swap the lower Clayburner and Joiner.
Go to Librarian taking 2 ore on the way, thena activate Librarian

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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: Stupidest guys ever

« on: May 28, 2018, 03:46:40 pm »

Well, I think they didnt really grasp Wihing Well's power, they decided to ignore the fact that a single one already gives unlimited options.

No, he specifically said they were going to be conservative and limit it to the cards on the table. These guys do raise a lot of good points though, it's now clear to me I've been overbuying Torturer.

That's why I said they decided to ignore it. Them being aware only makes it worse.

It's like judging the strength of Chapel while limiting yourself to only trashing a single card every time you play it (and obviously we know Chapel is already the worst card without that limitation).

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Non-Mafia Game Threads / Re: Colonists (Era 3, End of Year 3)

« on: May 28, 2018, 02:58:16 pm »

Riverbank Grove below Head Official,
Community Hall Builder between Ore Pit and Theater Builder.
Customs Office Builder between Iron Mine and Tailor Shop Builder,

i'm activating the Theater and also swapping two Factories to yellow.

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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: Stupidest guys ever

« on: May 27, 2018, 03:32:19 pm »

alead ives unimited

Good to know.

I think I have a problem with my keyboard. Fixed, however.

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Dominion Videos and Streams / Re: Stupidest guys ever

« on: May 27, 2018, 03:17:57 pm »

Well, I think they didnt really grasp Wihing Well's power, they decided to ignore the fact that a single one already gives unlimited options.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part IV

« on: May 20, 2018, 02:02:31 pm »

I've only ever heard tutor used for one-on-one teaching.

I'm using "tutorial" in this sense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutorial_system -- as I mentioned to silver, it really depends what he means by "tutorial" :-)

That's exactly what I meant! Which is also what Watno said.

Umm, that article talks about goup sizes of 2 to 3, whcih is not what I said.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part IV

« on: May 20, 2018, 01:15:03 pm »

At German universities tutorials are usually acompanying a lecture and are held by more advanced advanced students once or twice a week with groups between 5-20 students.
Students do exercises about the lecture material at home, and the tutorials discuss the solutions to those (after the students have worked on them themselves) furthermore. students can ask the tutor if they have trouble with understanding parts of the lecture during these tutorials.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Card alchemy revelation....

« on: May 20, 2018, 06:42:52 am »

Here's how I see the equation:



I have no idea why Donald X. is equal to imaginary negative 315.

Hint: Inn^2 = InnInn

More hints /what i was going for:
InnInn = ii*nnnn
ii*nnnn = -1*nnnn
-(Inn)^2 = nnnn
sqrt(nnnn) = nn
Inn/nn = I
Interpreting I as a Roman numeral, 515*I = DXV

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Card alchemy revelation....

« on: May 19, 2018, 07:23:50 pm »

Here's how I see the equation:



I have no idea why Donald X. is equal to imaginary negative 315.

Hint: Inn^2 = InnInn

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Card alchemy revelation....

« on: May 19, 2018, 03:22:48 pm »

I made a mistake, it's 515, not 315, as Awaclus rightly assumed