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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #25 on: November 13, 2013, 06:05:57 am »
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Man, no one here has made stupid mistakes outside of Dominion?
The only mistake outside of Dominion ist not being inside of Dominion ;-)
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #26 on: November 13, 2013, 07:11:22 am »
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Similar to the Governor example, I had a hand of Governor-Governor-Silver-Gold once with 1 Province and 1 Duchy left.

Silly me chose to trash the Gold first, letting my opponent trash a $4 for the last Duchy.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #27 on: November 13, 2013, 09:00:49 am »
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Similar to the Governor example, I had a hand of Governor-Governor-Silver-Gold once with 1 Province and 1 Duchy left.

Silly me chose to trash the Gold first, letting my opponent trash a $4 for the last Duchy.

Next time you will trash your silver, and your opponent will trash is Expand ;)
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #28 on: November 14, 2013, 02:42:29 pm »
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marriagestrategy.com
That site could just have "it depends on the spouse" and nothing else there.  ;D
It depends on the mother-in-law...
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #29 on: November 14, 2013, 03:14:58 pm »
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Dominion. I had the game in hand.
Then i stumbled and it fell down the stairs.

Seriously though, we once played a game where nobody had any points because without noticing it, we had caused a three-pile. My real life mistakes are too embarassing to talk about them here, but as for many embarrassing mistakes, "love" was a relevant aspect of them.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #30 on: November 14, 2013, 03:57:18 pm »
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marriagestrategy.com
That site could just have "it depends on the spouse" and nothing else there.  ;D
It depends on the mother-in-law...
Are you married to your mother-in-law?  :o

Not that there's anything wrong with it...
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #31 on: November 15, 2013, 08:58:19 am »
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #32 on: November 15, 2013, 09:35:36 am »
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Counting

"That's not the third pile!" is something I've experienced before too.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #33 on: November 15, 2013, 08:45:37 pm »
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Counting

"That's not the third pile!" is something I've experienced before too.

I tend to do the opposite: Trying to end the game by two-piling has lost me quite a few matches.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #35 on: November 16, 2013, 12:30:30 pm »
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I tend to do the opposite: Trying to end the game by two-piling has lost me quite a few matches.
Yes.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #36 on: November 16, 2013, 02:50:47 pm »
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Oh, Goko, wherefore art thou Goko?

Quote
Davio: turn 10
Davio   plays Cartographer
Davio   draws Silver
Davio   looks at Fool's Gold, Fool's Gold, Copper, Cartographer
Davio   places Cartographer on top of deck
Davio   places Fool's Gold on top of deck
Davio   places Fool's Gold on top of deck
Davio   places Copper on top of deck
Davio   plays JackOfAllTrades
Davio   gains Silver
Davio   places Copper on top of deck
Davio   trashes Province
Davio   plays 3 Copper, 1 Silver
Davio   buys Cartographer
Davio   gains Cartographer
Davio   draws Fool's Gold, Fool's Gold, Cartographer, Silver, Copper

I don't even remember clicking on the Province, but the site was so laggy, I might as well have.

Still, I ended up winning that game somehow, so it wasn't too bad. Maybe it was a highly strategic move to trash a Province for no benefit, who knows?

What's even worse is that because of the site's lagginess I didn't realize until after the game that there were only 7 Provinces in our decks!
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #37 on: November 17, 2013, 10:14:44 am »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #38 on: November 17, 2013, 09:21:50 pm »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #39 on: November 17, 2013, 10:56:13 pm »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.

I was going to edge-case this, then realized that no, there's no edge case.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #40 on: November 17, 2013, 11:06:18 pm »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.

I was going to edge-case this, then realized that no, there's no edge case.

Edge case: your opponent Ambassador'd that treasure map to you and you don't have another one. You've Golem'd into a Throne Room and have no other action cards that you want to play in your hand, and you won't have any actions left after playing Golem. You want to trash the Treasure Map asap.

(Ok, it's not an edge case to the situation where you choose to open TM/TR, but it is is a case where you would think to Throne a TM!)
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #41 on: November 18, 2013, 09:10:05 am »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.

Or thought to buy a Golem and two Treasure Maps, in hopes of drawing both Treasure Maps with the Golem.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #42 on: November 18, 2013, 09:27:09 am »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.

I was going to edge-case this, then realized that no, there's no edge case.

Edge case: your opponent Ambassador'd that treasure map to you and you don't have another one. You've Golem'd into a Throne Room and have no other action cards that you want to play in your hand, and you won't have any actions left after playing Golem. You want to trash the Treasure Map asap.

There is a much simpler case: You bought 3 Treasure Maps to hurry they colliding, and you have all 3 in hand plus TR. Playing TR on a TM gets rid of all 3 instead of leaving one almost-dead TM.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #43 on: November 18, 2013, 10:02:40 am »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.

I was going to edge-case this, then realized that no, there's no edge case.

Edge case: it's a 4P game so you want a high-variance strategy (TM), and Scheme is the bane to YW.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #44 on: November 18, 2013, 11:01:47 am »
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There is a much simpler case: You bought 3 Treasure Maps to hurry they colliding, and you have all 3 in hand plus TR. Playing TR on a TM gets rid of all 3 instead of leaving one almost-dead TM.
i was going to complain about this since only the first TM play produces gold, but the goal of the second play is trashing the third TM not getting gold, so you're in the clear, and I've avoided a stupid mistake.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #45 on: November 21, 2013, 06:59:38 am »
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While I may have made worse ones, I never felt dumber than the time I opened Scheme/Treasure Map.

I take it you never thought to throne room a treasure map then.

I was going to edge-case this, then realized that no, there's no edge case.

You start with three Harems, a Curse and a Crossroads in hand after an Urchin attack (which was defended by your Lighthouse - the Urchin is from the Black Market, the Lighthouse too - it was passed to you by a Black-Marketed Masquerade). You play Crossroads and draw Library, Throne Room and Treasure Map. Now you have 7 cards in hand, three Harems, a Curse and those actions. Throning the Treasure Map reduces your hand by one more than playing Library with it, and you want that 3rd card (it's the last and you saw it with Pearl Diver). As it is an Action (Scout, which you need because of the extreme Harem-density in your deck, you managed that with a Mint that became that Crossroads afterwards due to a Saboteur attack - the Saboteur came from the Black Market, too), you also need to have an Action left - so no chance to play Throne Room, Treasure Map and then Library. Because of decktracking you also know the remaining two cards are your only Duke (got that for your second Mint due to a Swindler from the Black Market) and a Colony, which is exactly the card you want to buy this turn to end the game and win by three points.

Things like this happen every day.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #46 on: November 21, 2013, 09:01:22 am »
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Going for golden deck with Highways.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #47 on: November 21, 2013, 09:18:43 am »
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Buying Scout.  ;D
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #48 on: November 21, 2013, 09:34:15 am »
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Going for golden deck with Highways.

That does not sound terrible. Once you get the deck to Bishop+$7+ in Treasure+Highways, you can just trash Highways until you get to the real Golden Deck. It does sound slow, though.
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Re: The stupidest mistake you ever made
« Reply #49 on: November 21, 2013, 11:08:14 am »
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Going for golden deck with Highways.

That does not sound terrible. Once you get the deck to Bishop+$7+ in Treasure+Highways, you can just trash Highways until you get to the real Golden Deck. It does sound slow, though.

Why do you need to trash your highways? They're cantrips so as long as you only have bishop + province + 2 treasure cards, you will still draw your deck.
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