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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2500 on: June 04, 2016, 11:52:08 pm »
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OK, here's going at it with some actual methodology.

From what I can see, there are nine types with different colours: Action, Treasure, Victory, Curse, Reaction, Duration, Shelter, Ruins, Reserve.

All Knights, Looters and Travellers are Actions, and they don't necessarily bring a lot of extra to the table so we may wish to rule those out immediately.  Ruins are all Actions as well but they have their own colour; nonetheless, we will likely get more out of another Action card.  So that's one colour we give up on.

Hovel is the best Shelter to take.  It gives us two types and colours without using any of the usual primary types.

All Durations are actions.  The Durations with the most types are the ones that are also Attacks.  So let's take Haunted Woods.

We can take a Reserve.  We can grab either Coin of the Realm or Distant Lands.  Pre-Empires, there aren't any Victory cards with other types that we can still take, but there are Treasures.  So we should take Distant Lands here.  (Empires has Castles for another type.)

And then we can take Diadem for our Treasure, and Curse because it's unique.


Total: 10 types and 8 colours in 5 cards.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2501 on: June 18, 2016, 10:14:23 am »
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During my Buy phase, I use Pilgrimage to gain an Embargo.  How?
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2502 on: June 18, 2016, 10:24:04 am »
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2503 on: June 20, 2016, 05:12:12 pm »
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So Tax adds debt to the cost of a card for the next player who wants that card, but there are at least four things you can buy to actually increase the cost of a card. What are they?

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2504 on: June 20, 2016, 05:27:58 pm »
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So Tax adds debt to the cost of a card for the next player who wants that card, but there are at least four things you can buy to actually increase the cost of a card. What are they?

Stonemason, Doctor, Herald, Masterpiece.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2505 on: June 20, 2016, 05:28:26 pm »
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So Tax adds debt to the cost of a card for the next player who wants that card, but there are at least four things you can buy to actually increase the cost of a card. What are they?

Villa makes Peddler cost more; I dunno about the others.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2506 on: June 20, 2016, 05:31:57 pm »
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Castles pile, feels like cheating, but is a potential option.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2507 on: June 20, 2016, 05:35:45 pm »
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Bonfire can increase the cost of stuff by trashing your Highways.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2508 on: June 20, 2016, 05:36:35 pm »
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Villa and Bonfire were two of the ones I was thinking of. The overpay ones are clever but not quite what I was getting at. Castles don't actually increase in cost when you buy them, they just uncover more expensive cards.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2509 on: June 20, 2016, 05:43:04 pm »
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So it also works for Bridge Troll and Quarry with Bonfire, but not Bridge.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2510 on: June 20, 2016, 05:46:31 pm »
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Bonfire could also trash your not-a-Band of Misfits from play, turning it into a Band of Misfits, which costs more than whatever it was emulating.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2511 on: June 20, 2016, 05:48:46 pm »
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When you buy a card with Swamp Hag in play, you pay 'extra' with Curses.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2512 on: June 20, 2016, 05:50:54 pm »
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Bonfire could also trash your not-a-Band of Misfits from play, turning it into a Band of Misfits, which costs more than whatever it was emulating.

Nice, I didn't even think about that.  But there at still at least two more uh card shaped things that you can buy to increase the cost of things, no matter what you trash with Bonfire.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2513 on: June 20, 2016, 05:53:37 pm »
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Buying Mandarin can move Crown from in play to your deck, increasing the cost of Peddler.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2514 on: June 20, 2016, 05:56:04 pm »
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Border Village gaining Villa, but that doesn't seem like a new solution.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2515 on: June 20, 2016, 05:59:06 pm »
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Buying Mandarin can move Crown from in play to your deck, increasing the cost of Peddler.
So mint would be the 4th then?
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2516 on: June 20, 2016, 06:00:18 pm »
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Buying Mandarin can move Crown from in play to your deck, increasing the cost of Peddler.
So mint would be the 4th then?

I hadn't thought of Mint, that makes 5 things. Mint and Mandarin also remove Quarry from play.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2517 on: June 20, 2016, 06:04:58 pm »
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I guess if Villa is a valid answer because buying it ends your buy phase and increases the cost of Peddler, then all the card shaped things that you can buy could be valid answers for the same reason.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2518 on: June 20, 2016, 06:10:10 pm »
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I guess if Villa is a valid answer because buying it ends your buy phase and increases the cost of Peddler, then all the card shaped things that you can buy could be valid answers for the same reason.

Hmm, that's actually a good point. There's still another thing you can buy to increase the cost of non-Peddler cards though.

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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2519 on: June 20, 2016, 06:26:12 pm »
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Raid increases the cost of cards for the opponent when you buy it.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2520 on: June 20, 2016, 06:42:31 pm »
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Raid increases the cost of cards for the opponent when you buy it.
How?
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2521 on: June 20, 2016, 06:49:11 pm »
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Oh, right. That would be -1 Card.

Alright, I guess there's Ball then, but that's next turn. Ew.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2522 on: June 20, 2016, 06:55:24 pm »
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Oh, right. That would be -1 Card.

Alright, I guess there's Ball then, but that's next turn. Ew.

That's decreasing coin accrued, not increasing cost.
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Re: Easy Puzzles
« Reply #2523 on: June 21, 2016, 02:21:12 pm »
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Isn't the last one just Ferry, moving the token off a pile?
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« Reply #2524 on: June 21, 2016, 02:33:43 pm »
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Isn't the last one just Ferry, moving the token off a pile?

We of course missed the arguably most obvious one :)
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