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[eHalcyon]

So what cards do the bottom 3 mats come from?

[Asper]

So what cards do the bottom 3 mats come from?

I do not understand your question. All six on the right are mats for Victory tokens. None of them is card-specific. About the cards on the left, i have no clue. The Trade Route mat in germany shows the Trade Route art, a giant coin symbol and a descriptive text how the mat is used.

By the way, there are 8 VP mats in the german version of Prosperity, too. I guess the reason why there are eight is that this way, you can play with whatever mat you find the most appealing. Personally, i like to "be" the alchemist



Edit: Ah, i guess you are talking about those on the left. Pretty sure they are box art. The tree thing is from Prosperity, and the left one might be is from base.

[jaketheyak]

I've never seen the thing on the right, but I own the ones on the left, and there are 8. I don't know why.

Actually, I do know why (read: I have a guess). There is also the trade route mat. There need to be at least 6, one for each player, but 7 is prime, eww. Might as well make there 8 mats so the mats fit nicely in a 3x3 cardboard punch-out.

Adventures apparently only has 6 mats though.  What would the rest of the cardboard be for then?

The ones on the right look like Dominion art.  Middle left is from the Prosperity box, bottom left is Alchemy, bottom right is Seaside.

Actually, the top two on the image on the left are also from Prosperity/Seaside, matching the ones in the right image.  Huh.  The one in the middle is from the Intrigue box and bottom left looks like base.  Middle right is Vineyards.  Middle left looks like a different section of the Seaside box.

Can anybody identify what all the other images are from?

Adventures doesn't have a lone Trade Route map bumping up the number, though, so it can go with 2x3. Prosperity couldn't; that'd mean one Trade Route and five VP mats.

How did Seaside handle the mats thing? The only physical copy I've seen is missing them.

The Seaside mats are much larger than the Prosperity mats.
They are tall and skinny, fitting only two down and three across in the box.
So there are actually three sheets of cardboard to punch out the eighteen mats.

Does that make sense?

Here's a picture of two of them that shows the scale:



That's also presumably why they are likely missing from the set you've played.
I can understand not wanting to pack them, they are kind of huge.

[eHalcyon]

Edit: Ah, i guess you are talking about those on the left. Pretty sure they are box art. The tree thing is from Prosperity, and the left one might be is from base.

Yes, that's what I meant.  And whoops, I actually did identify the left as Base and the middle as another Prosperity image, but I may have forgotten to mention it and then forgotten I'd figured that out at all.  But I definitely didn't figure out the bottom right.

Edit: Why not just use one mat for the Seaside cards?  Island cards and Native Village cards can be kept separate by the fact that the former are face up and the latter are face down.

[AJD]

Here is a graph of how popular it is (taken from here).

I looked up the same thing. The interesting thing to me was that it was very close to cracking top 500 for girls circa 1930

The majority of the "Donald" girls are probably the result of typos—boys named Donald for whom someone accidentally checked the wrong box somewhere along the data-entry chain.

[jaketheyak]

Here is a graph of how popular it is (taken from here).

I looked up the same thing. The interesting thing to me was that it was very close to cracking top 500 for girls circa 1930

The majority of the "Donald" girls are probably the result of typos—boys named Donald for whom someone accidentally checked the wrong box somewhere along the data-entry chain.

I'm assuming this data is from the same source as on this page, which means it is from the US Social Security Administration.
So, basically, these are officially registered births.
I actually have a much harder time believing that, in 1930, 174 parents accidentally registered their son Donald as female and never corrected the error, than if 174 parents had just decided that Donald was a perfectly fine name for a girl.

[eHalcyon]

Or other typos, like girls who are actually named Donalda or Dinald or Ronald.

[AJD]

The majority of the "Donald" girls are probably the result of typos—boys named Donald for whom someone accidentally checked the wrong box somewhere along the data-entry chain.

I'm assuming this data is from the same source as on this page, which means it is from the US Social Security Administration.
So, basically, these are officially registered births.
I actually have a much harder time believing that, in 1930, 174 parents accidentally registered their son Donald as female and never corrected the error, than if 174 parents had just decided that Donald was a perfectly fine name for a girl.

The Social Security Administration's info page on name data says "Name data are not edited. For example, the sex associated with a name may be incorrect."

[AJD]

(Also:

1. This data doesn't allow parents opportunities to "correct the error". It's just what was filled out on the initial forms, dumped into a database. If people "registered their son Donald as female" and did correct the error, that wouldn't make it into the name file.

2. The Social Security Administration didn't yet exist in 1930, so the 1930 data isn't about how "parents registered their son" in 1930 anyway.)

[dondon151]

I would say it's fairly uncommon.  I'm 55 and I've only known one other person that went by Donald.  Everyone else shortens it to Don, or their legal name is just Don, not Donald.

Obviously, it's me, right?

[jaketheyak]

(Also:

1. This data doesn't allow parents opportunities to "correct the error". It's just what was filled out on the initial forms, dumped into a database. If people "registered their son Donald as female" and did correct the error, that wouldn't make it into the name file.

2. The Social Security Administration didn't yet exist in 1930, so the 1930 data isn't about how "parents registered their son" in 1930 anyway.)

That's interesting. I guess the point is that the name file is supposed to be a completely anonymous data dump, so if the details on your child's birth registration is later amended, there is no identifying info in the name file to allow a correction to be made.

I stand corrected, typos seem the obvious source of female Donalds. Especially as it correlates perfectly with peak popularity of the name for boys.

I would say it's fairly uncommon.  I'm 55 and I've only known one other person that went by Donald.  Everyone else shortens it to Don, or their legal name is just Don, not Donald.

Obviously, it's me, right?

You're not Donald Glover by any chance, are you?

[Donald X.]

Edit: Why not just use one mat for the Seaside cards?  Island cards and Native Village cards can be kept separate by the fact that the former are face up and the latter are face down.

I don't think anyone proposed that so there you go. Possibly someone thought of it and rejected it without telling me though. I had cards for Native Village and Pirate Ship mats, and nothing for Island, I just used the first Island set aside.

[LastFootnote]

I think the best song title I've heard so far is: I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard.

[Seprix]

I think the best song title I've heard so far is: I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard.

By the same band, "If I cut my hair, Hawaii will sink"

In fact, that band seems to exclusively have long titles for their songs.

[LastFootnote]

I think the best song title I've heard so far is: I Didn't Say I Was Powerful, I Said I Was a Wizard.

By the same band, "If I cut my hair, Hawaii will sink"

In fact, that band seems to exclusively have long titles for their songs.

Looking at their discography, I'd say that their titles are longer on average than most bands, but not exclusively long. I think a close second favorite title of theirs is: The Undertaker's Thirst for Revenge is Unquenchable (The Final Battle)

[Seprix]

Actual song. Not a huge fan of it, but I appreciate that they tried something different.

Do you like weird song titles, Donald?

[Donald X.]

Do you like weird song titles, Donald?

Man. I like good song titles. Weird or not. Weird stands out, that's a thing about weirdness. That long Sufjan Stevens title was awful; Chicago was a much better song title on that album (and a much better song). But there isn't as much to say about the short normal title.

Robert Pollard was asked in an interview once, that age-old question: which do you write first, the music or the lyrics. He said, "the titles." He would make a track listing for an album and then write songs for the titles. For Bee Thousand, he went through a yearbook, assigned band names to group photos in it - as if they were pictures of rock bands - and then wrote songs for those bands.

[Watno]

The Seaside mats are much larger than the Prosperity mats.
They are tall and skinny, fitting only two down and three across in the box.
So there are actually three sheets of cardboard to punch out the eighteen mats

So the adventures mats will be seaside sized

[rspeer]

Now I want to hear a cover of Sufjan Stevens' "The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us!" by Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band with Tim and Sam.

[SwitchedFromStarcraft]

I would say it's fairly uncommon.  I'm 55 and I've only known one other person that went by Donald.  Everyone else shortens it to Don, or their legal name is just Don, not Donald.

Obviously, it's me, right?

Do I know you?

[Fragasnap]

So what cards do the bottom 3 mats come from?

Prosperity Box - Seaside Box
Seaside Box - Intrigue Box - Vineyard
Dominion Instructions - Prosperity Box - Dominion Instructions

[TheOthin]

Is the posted Adventures release date of April 8 an accurate announcement of the current plans?

[Donald X.]

Is the posted Adventures release date of April 8 an accurate announcement of the current plans?

I don't have any more information than you. My reasoning would be, why would Jay put up that date now without expecting it to be accurate?

[WanderingWinder]

Is the posted Adventures release date of April 8 an accurate announcement of the current plans?

I don't have any more information than you. My reasoning would be, why would Jay put up that date now without expecting it to be accurate?

I think he may be asking because the same page is displaying a March 31 release date for Temporum.

[qmech]

Is the posted Adventures release date of April 8 an accurate announcement of the current plans?

I don't have any more information than you. My reasoning would be, why would Jay put up that date now without expecting it to be accurate?

I think he may be asking because the same page is displaying a March 31 release date for Temporum.

Well that one at least is easy to explain.