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Why is it incumbent on the loser to offer to shake hands first? Why is it seen as poor etiquette for the winner to offer their hand first?

It is not. This is the first I've heard someone suggest it is. If I am in a typing mood, I'll say gg win or lose, first or second.

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It's an extension of good sportsmanship from the real world. Politely saying "Good luck" before the game and a handshake after the game are are explicitly taught as easy ways to break the ice and show respect for your opponent and the game. Many little leagues and other sports do this. Online you don't "say" anything and you can't "shake hands", but it's still a game and typing "good luck" seems like a very similar thing.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: August 23, 2017, 10:13:41 am »
If I have a lot of luggage, is that something I can indicate?

Not directly, but you can call the driver after one is matched with you to see if he will have room. Alternatively, you can use one of the higher tier levels of service (if available in your area) which usually means an SUV or some equivalent.

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General Discussion / Re: Need Feedback on a New Job
« on: August 23, 2017, 09:11:55 am »
2) E-mails are not private. At the very least, your company can read them. Depending on your line of work, they may even be semi-public. For instance, my emails are discoverable in court cases. Further, clients can request them (not even our own company!). Government e-mails are subject to all sorts of varying disclosure/information requirements; hence Clinton (and others) wanting so badly to set up their own private servers.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Revenge of Dominion Picture Trivia
« on: August 02, 2017, 03:23:37 pm »
And after some internet research, I believe the better answer is.... #6. Oracle Arena        .

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Revenge of Dominion Picture Trivia
« on: August 02, 2017, 03:19:07 pm »
#4. Fugitive Wall   

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: World Famous Dominion Picture Trivia
« on: August 02, 2017, 12:24:48 pm »
Do you have different images than me? All I see on 10 are Copper, Hoard, and Hero.

Oh, I meant the full page comic of which that image is one panel.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: World Famous Dominion Picture Trivia
« on: August 02, 2017, 10:32:33 am »
Also, Fugitive    alone gives #12, so not sure what you are going for there. It is a pretty iconic movie poster....

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: World Famous Dominion Picture Trivia
« on: August 02, 2017, 10:23:11 am »
Me, too. These are difficult, but fun! #10's tricky because the text of the comic has 7 or 8 different Dominion cards mentioned in it! I can get it on the first page with three cards, but not two. "Dungeon Steward Mill" actually returns it as the first result for me. I was really hoping "Steward Mill" would do it. But, alas! It does not seem to work.

Edit: Seeing the OP, I guess not literally the front page was ok on #10.

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Puzzles and Challenges / Re: Revenge of Dominion Picture Trivia
« on: July 31, 2017, 03:27:37 pm »
And since this thread just got revived, I'm pretty dang sure my answer for #6 is correct. Could I get a re-check on that one?

Kind of, but not really.

I mean, I found this on like line 8 of google image searching "warrior arena".

That was my first thought, too!

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: July 18, 2017, 12:20:04 pm »
Sounds like you're doing all the right things. I hope everything works out.

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General Discussion / Re: Random Stuff Part III
« on: July 18, 2017, 10:53:21 am »
Scraping and repainting an ancient house would do it, as I am learning from working on my "new" old house. Do you have any current projects underway? It would be worth getting some lead testing kits from the hardware store to test the old paint you are scraping. They are fairly cheap. If you need to finish a project, scraping/sanding should be either done by having someone hold a vacuum with a HEPA filter next to you or done wet. Also good to seal off the room in which you are working, if possible. Vacuum drop cloths; do not shake outside. Wash your hands religiously.

Less likely source could be the water. In our town, it's recommended that all baby formula should be mixed with bottled water even though EPA water tests all come back at acceptable levels. "Just to be safe." That does not inspire confidence to me.  If you have lead access pipes anywhere from the street or throughout the house and they are corroding or have otherwise gone bad, they could leeching lead into only your house. Our house had only one lead pipe in the basement, which was easy to bypass, but just to be safe, we switched to bottled water for drinking and cooking, anyway.

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Dominion Articles / Re: Kings court
« on: June 30, 2017, 09:06:45 pm »
Jack forgot the +3 cards. So the KC-Market would give you +3 Cards, +3 Actions, +3 Buys, +3 Coins.

(Also, this thread should be in General Discussion or Rules Questions.)

Welcome to the forum!

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General Discussion / Re: Alexander Hamilton musical
« on: June 30, 2017, 08:57:01 am »
Well, if you can't see it, you can always read the hit biography by Ron Chernow on which the musical is based.

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Not revealing a Moat to an attack when the attack will hurt you (or Bane to Young Witch)

Discard attacks in anticipation of Menagerie or draw to X (e.g. Jack). I've allowed Pirate Ship to attack to intentionally trash Coppers. Margrave when one card will save a completely dead hand. Soothsayer when I want the card really badly. Haunted Woods when I want to take advantage of the top-decking.

Any attack you want to take, really. There are so many reasonable things here that when they apply you are probably not even going to be buying Moat in the first place. Which makes them edge-cases with optimal play, I guess, because you have to actually have a Moat in your hand, not just in the kingdom.

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Not revealing a Province when an opponent plays Tournament

I have done this exactly one time years ago to trigger a bad reshuffle for my opponent.

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Not revealing Horse Traders to a discard attack when discarding won't help you

Haven't done this, but not triggering a bad reshuffle could be a valid reason.

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Anyone who can add to the list of "ridiculous" plays, or has an edge case for them?

Not triggering a reshuffle is usually a good reason to do something strange. Presence of Events/Landmarks is another ("you bought a Curse?!"). Outside of that....

Playing Possession on a Possession turn because your hand is junk and you want it discarded (a very expensive, round-a-bout Guide).

Playing but not discarding a Treasure for Stables, not trashing for Spice Merchant, etc. when you have a valid treasure because you need another Action in play and you need the Treasure to buy something (e.g. Emporium, Horn of Plenty).



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Dominion General Discussion / Re: The swingiest card ever
« on: June 26, 2017, 04:39:56 pm »
okay now that I remember Sentry exists it is definitely the absolute swingiest card here because my opponents somehow always manage to repeatedly trash two cards while it consistently collides with my good stuff

Yes, in retrospect I wish I had suggested "You may trash one of them. You may discard one of them. Put the rest back in any order." Maybe it would have been too weak that way, dunno.

Isn't that how it's worded? NO?  Look at that, I've been playing it wrong. Hmmm... Yes, I still buy it a lot.

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Game Reports / Re: Monument-BM?
« on: June 21, 2017, 11:08:07 am »
Let's follow along in the log for a while....

1. Tournament opening is probably better. But you're not going to lose the game over it.
2-5. Seems good enough. Leaves you with a coin token on hand.
6. Province could have been an Altar since opponent is not contesting, as mentioned. Again, you're not going to lose the game over it. But these little things do start to compound.
7. Seems good enough.
8. Here is where you really start to go off the rails. You turn your one and only Silver into a Sage and buy a Sage. You leave 3 coin tokens in the bank. You need to be utilizing these tokens for better stuff. Better stuff early leads to more better stuff which leads to even more better stuff.... Further, you kill your only Silver for cycling with Sage. Tournaments are not being contested, so not a very good trade-off, IMO. Use those tokens and get a Border Village-Ranger or Altar here and keep a Silver.
9. Misplayed. You've banked everything you've had on cycling with Sages, presumably to line up Province/Tournament, but you misplay the chance to get two prizes. You play Sage (draw a Province), play a Sage (draw a Tournament). You now have two Tournaments and a Province. You play Tournament (discarding Province and gaining Trusty Steed, drawing Trusty Steed). You should have tried drawing with TS to try to get Sage to re-draw the Province before playing Tournament. You would have failed in this case (drawing a Copper and a Monument). But you should have tried. You also continue to hoard your tokens (at this point I think you have 5?). Butcher Copper into Sage/Ranger then buy BV-Ranger or Lost Arts or Altar or something to keep building up that deck as much as possible!

The compounding is getting really bad. 8 and 9 are potentially the game losing turns.

One final note: You seem to want to go with lots of Sages for cycling so that makes the stop card opening (Monument) on your part even stranger.

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.
« on: June 08, 2017, 03:47:19 pm »
I wrote mine in STATA. Any language works. Now that I think about it, it is actually possible to do a simulation in Excel, but it's not super pretty.

1. Each row is a trial. Say you have 1000 rows. Each cell is the sum of two dice =RANDBETWEEN(1,6)+RANDBETWEEN(1,6). Do 220 columns by 1000 rows. 220 because you are guaranteed to hit 20 of some number by then. 
2. Now we need to identify the roll on which the 20th of some number is rolled. I don't know if you can do this in one step. The way I thought of doing it is the following procedure.
   2a. Copy/paste values so the numbers don't keep changing on you.
   2b. Find/replace 12 to k, 11 to j, 10 to i, 2 to a, 3 to b, 4 to c, 5 to d, 6 to e, 7 to f, 8 to g, 9 to h (in that order).
   2c. CONCATENATE each row into a single 240 character string. (Delete columns 1-220 keeping only the string which becomes the new column A.)
   2d. In columns B-L you will find the position at which each of 2-12 (coded as a-k) appears for the the 20th time. Use variations on the formula =FIND("z",SUBSTITUTE(A1,"a","z",20)). This substitutes "z" for the 20th "a" in the string then returns the position of "z". This is roll on which the 20th time "2" was rolled. Drag the formulas down the 1000 rows.
3. Now we need to identify the number that rolled 20 times first.
   3a. Copy/paste values.
   3b. Find/replace "#VALUE!" to 220.
   3c. In column M find the MIN number of rolls.
   3d. In column N find the number 2-12 associated with the minimum. I know you can do this with a 11-nested IF statement if you insert a row 1 that simply labels every column 2,3,...,12. Something like =IF(B2=M2,$B$1,IF(C2=M2,$C$1,IF(...etc...))). You can probably also do index/match or set up a vlookup or something.
4. Now you just need to count everything up! Use COUNTIF statements.

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Dominion General Discussion / Re: Comparing power cards
« on: June 08, 2017, 01:15:29 pm »
This is one of the best discussion threads in a long time! Thanks for posting.

I also agree Chapel-Remake can really be great. In the example kingdom posted in the OP, my Chapel would probably become Steward or Silver depending on when they collide, but Steward here is for draw, not trashing. I would definitely ignore Amb. Remake is killer. I would use it as the payload as there is a chain all the way $2-$8 giving a straightforward set up for a final triple Province turn.

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.
« on: June 07, 2017, 04:35:29 pm »
I actually get much higher average number of rolls and slightly different probabilities. I ran a smaller sim (100k; which explains lack of 2 and 12 results), but that alone shouldn't explain the differences.

#     %     Avg. number of rolls before reaching 20
2     -        -
3     0.0    140
4     0.3    123
5     4.2    114
6     19.1  109
7     52.8  104
8     19.1  109
9     4.2    115
10    0.3   122
11    0.0   143
12    -       -

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.
« on: June 07, 2017, 10:44:40 am »
one boy managed to get to twenty 10's before anything else, and in fact did so in a remarkably low number of rolls (73 IIRC). The teacher and I were discussing afterwards about how unlikely this was and how you'd calculate it, and neither of us were especially confident in how to do it. I suspected it would be the hypergeometric distribution, but I've honestly barely used that so I'm not sure.

First, what's the probability he rolled fairly?

In high school stats we did an experiment. Each student flipped a coin at his desk 10 times and wrote the results on the board. Quite a lot of students (more than half) wrote up all heads or all tails. People were flipping systematically, not randomly. The teacher scrapped the experiment, and had us redo it standing a few feet from a wall and flipping the coin into the wall and letting it fall to the floor before writing heads/tails. The new results were better.

Anyway, it's harder to consistently roll dice, but it's possible.

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Game Reports / Re: I built the Forager deck!
« on: June 01, 2017, 02:47:20 pm »
I hit analyze and get a black screen. Does it not work in Chrome without the extension?

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.
« on: May 30, 2017, 03:45:25 pm »
Step A: Identify the big, key theorems, techniques, and ideas that might be relevant to solving a problems.  Study problems that trip you up. Is there often a method used that you often miss (e.g. trigonometric u-substitutions) or a theorem you forget you can apply (e.g. pigeonhole principle)? Study more in areas in which you are having trouble. What are the big ideas?

Step B: Understand these big, key theorems, techniques, and ideas. And not just in a superficial "that makes sense, let's move on to the next thing!" kind of way. Really internalize them so they become a natural part of your problem solving toolbox.

Then keep going. A -> B -> A -> B ->....

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Game Reports / Re: Could somebody explain me ranking?
« on: May 12, 2017, 03:59:54 pm »
Also some people are not equally good with all cards/expansions/interactions. They may be really, really good with the expansions they own in person, for instance.

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General Discussion / Re: Maths thread.
« on: May 09, 2017, 02:09:54 pm »
.... I want to see if anybody can figure it out.

Do I get the credit? :P

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