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Afriscipio posted:I've been given The Thing board game for my birthday. How scared should I be of it being bad game? One of the guys at my board game group just played it at a convention and immediately bought it while saying "IT'S SO GOOD!" in our group text and he usually has pretty good taste so I'm excited to play it.
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I'm pretty sure Holmes actually straight-up cheats in at least one case in SHCD.
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If anyone is familiar with the game TAMSK; its the retired game out of the GIPF series that uses sand timers as player pieces, and has been out of print for yeeeears. I spotted one on eBay today and shot the seller a message asking if they had tested the timers, as that game was notorious for having wildly variable timers in it. I was expecting a curt "yeah, they're fine" or "no, haven't tested" response...but instead she sends exhaustive logs of testing all 7 timers in the game 3 or 4 times solely because I asked about it. I felt kinda obligated to submit an offer on the game after that.
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Feb 18, 2018 23:56
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What are your favorite card games playable with a 52-card standard deck? My family likes Oh Hell which is a trick-taking game involving bidding, but I feel it takes a little long to play in the way that we play it (19 rounds!) Bridge.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:18
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hyphz posted:Bridge. I think you mean Spades?
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Feb 19, 2018 00:23
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food court bailiff posted:I'm pretty sure Holmes actually straight-up cheats in at least one case in SHCD. Yeah we came to that conclusion too. What was more surprising was that there's one case where he just does everything perfectly reasonably.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:26
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What are your favorite card games playable with a 52-card standard deck? My family likes Oh Hell which is a trick-taking game involving bidding, but I feel it takes a little long to play in the way that we play it (19 rounds!) Rummy 500.
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Feb 19, 2018 00:32
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Cribbage feels like a modern game and there's nothing else really like it.
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Feb 19, 2018 01:46
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Huxley posted:Cribbage feels like a modern game and there's nothing else really like it. God bless that old Hoyle computer game for allowing me to play cribbage against a talking dog, or maybe even Graham from Kings Quest.
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Feb 19, 2018 02:08
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jivjov posted:If anyone is familiar with the game TAMSK; its the retired game out of the GIPF series that uses sand timers as player pieces, and has been out of print for yeeeears. I spotted one on eBay today and shot the seller a message asking if they had tested the timers, as that game was notorious for having wildly variable timers in it. I was expecting a curt "yeah, they're fine" or "no, haven't tested" response...but instead she sends exhaustive logs of testing all 7 timers in the game 3 or 4 times solely because I asked about it. That was a nice response I would also have felt obligated to make an offer
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Feb 19, 2018 02:15
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hyphz posted:Bridge. Bridge is good - if you want something less complex Euchre or Australian 500 are also good? There is a fairly clear sequence of complexity here Trumps are fixed or random, no bidding (All the whist games) Very Simple bidding to select Trumps (Euchre) Simple bidding to select trumps (Australian 500, which I gather exists in Canada too?) Complex bidding to select Trumps (Bridge). Just slide up or down depending on your appetite for complexity. I think 500 is the 'sweet spot' for family card games, but Euchre has a lot to recommend it. Cthulhu Dreams fucked around with this message at 03:01 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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Feb 19, 2018 02:58
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Cthulhu Dreams posted:Bridge is good - if you want something less complex Euchre or Australian 500 are also good? There is a fairly clear sequence of complexity here Euchre is great for drunks, card-counters, and/or cheaters.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:02
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What are your favorite card games playable with a 52-card standard deck? My family likes Oh Hell which is a trick-taking game involving bidding, but I feel it takes a little long to play in the way that we play it (19 rounds!) Bridge, hearts is okay, spades, rummy 500 is fun, cribbage is actually quite good. But Bridge is the best.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:07
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Kiranamos posted:God bless that old Hoyle computer game for allowing me to play cribbage against a talking dog, or maybe even Graham from Kings Quest. Look up Cribbage With Grandpas.
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Feb 19, 2018 03:23
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Speaking as a midwesterner, I could die happy without ever being invited to another euchre table for my entire life
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Feb 19, 2018 03:23
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My favorites card games: 1) Sheepshead is like advanced/more interesting euchre. Recommend playing with called ace for partner. 2) up and down the river, which is an oh hell variant. 3) cribbage 4) rummy 500 (only played a couple times)
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Feb 19, 2018 03:34
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Ropes4u posted:That was a nice response I would also have felt obligated to make an offer Yeah; I'm now the proud owner of TAMSK for "only" $125. But it's in great condition, comes with the Potentials to bring into GIPF, and that's cheaper than the last one I saw on eBay
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Feb 19, 2018 03:54
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What are your favorite card games playable with a 52-card standard deck? My family likes Oh Hell which is a trick-taking game involving bidding, but I feel it takes a little long to play in the way that we play it (19 rounds!) Skat, Ninety-Nine, Schafkopf/Sheepshead, and Tien Len are all nice trick-taking games played with a normal deck of cards.
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Feb 19, 2018 04:35
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I've heard good things about Tichu but haven't played it. Not quite a standard deck but you can easily DIY the 4 wild cards with the two stock jokers and stealing two jokers from another deck.
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Feb 19, 2018 05:03
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Tree Dude posted:I've heard good things about Tichu but haven't played it. Not quite a standard deck but you can easily DIY the 4 wild cards with the two stock jokers and stealing two jokers from another deck. I have played it and it is rad. It has been a big hit with every group we tried it in. One of our game pals as it turns out is an absolute wizard with trick taking games of every sort and she and her partner just walloped us.
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Feb 19, 2018 06:11
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Some Numbers posted:I think you mean Spades? Black people Spades or white people Spades? Very different games while using the same base mechanic. I was shocked when I first came across white people Spades, I didn't know people played that way. In case you didn't know, black people Spades uses a mechanic called board. Board is where the table decides how many tricks you must take to score. So if Board is four, then you must bid at least four and take at least four to make your bid. Black people don't play null, I hadn't heard of that until I encountered white people playing Spades. *Somewhat tongue in cheek of course, but really I don't know of black people from the south at least who play null.
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who's ready for the hottest board game sequel of all time https://twitter.com/ttpm/status/964499951861555200
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My mother and I have started playing Loser's Cribbage. It's the exact same game, but whoever gets 121 first loses. There's something satisfying about throwing a pair of 5s into your opponent's crib.
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ElNarez posted:who's ready for the hottest board game sequel of all time This is like a bad photoshop gag from 10 years ago, except somehow real I guess.
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Feb 19, 2018 07:17
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rydiafan posted:My mother and I have started playing Loser's Cribbage. It's the exact same game, but whoever gets 121 first loses. There's something satisfying about throwing a pair of 5s into your opponent's crib. Lots of games are fun to play like this. 7 Blunders is always a hit with a group that's played the original a lot.
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Feb 19, 2018 07:18
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deadwing posted:Lots of games are fun to play like this. 7 Blunders is always a hit with a group that's played the original a lot. ... "I'll discard this for 3 coins"?
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Feb 19, 2018 07:22
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Jabor posted:... "I'll discard this for 3 coins"? Can't if you have a legal play. There's more to 7 Blunders than just "try to lose 7 Wonders". It's surprisingly well designed. https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/85134/7-blunders
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Lorini posted:Black people Spades or white people Spades? Very different games while using the same base mechanic. I was shocked when I first came across white people Spades, I didn't know people played that way. In case you didn't know, black people Spades uses a mechanic called board. Board is where the table decides how many tricks you must take to score. So if Board is four, then you must bid at least four and take at least four to make your bid. Black people don't play null, I hadn't heard of that until I encountered white people playing Spades. Based on that description, white people Spades. Bidding Nil is the best thing.
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https://www.coolstuffinc.com/p/139373 Palenque is on sale again at CSI for $3, this time with a limit of 6/customer. I don't know what other games I'll make with the materials, but I know I'll spraypaint some popsicle sticks and make Tokyo Highway. Really tempted to get my friend to buy me 6 more because that's a whole ton of materials and ready-wrapped boards I can use.
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After playing a lot of 500, I think that Nullo or similar rules where you have to lose all tricks are bad - bit it highly depends on the scoring. In Australian 500 they are degenerate
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food court bailiff posted:Betrayal at the House on the Hill/Baldur's Gate is co-op for 90% of the game (and sometimes longer!), there's generally very very little combat, and the exploration mechanics and sheer number of haunt scenarios give it a ton of replayability. house on the hill haunts were usually fun but sometimes very bad. the widow's walk haunts were just absolute poo poo, so bad that we just went with a rule system to only play the vanilla haunts. I've only played a couple rounds of baldur's gate, but from what I've seen and heard, they're massively cleaned up and rebalanced. my table top group weren't spitefully hollering and cussing at each other at the end of the night which I see as a victory
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Tree Dude posted:I've heard good things about Tichu but haven't played it. Not quite a standard deck but you can easily DIY the 4 wild cards with the two stock jokers and stealing two jokers from another deck. I absolutely detested Tichu. It's on my very short list of "games I'd rather play nothing than play".
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What are your favorite card games playable with a 52-card standard deck? My family likes Oh Hell which is a trick-taking game involving bidding, but I feel it takes a little long to play in the way that we play it (19 rounds!) Here in West-Flanders we love Manillen. It uses 32 cards, from 7 to king plus the aces. The 10s have the highest value, then ace, king, etc. The 10 is worth five points at the end of the trick, aces 4 and so on. 7, 8 and 9 are worthless. It is playes in 2 teams of 2, where each person gets 8 cards and the dealer chooses a trump ("no trump" is allowed) , then the player to the left starts play. You generally play to 121 points or 12 games total, depends on what you decide before the game. Basic rules: - you must follow suit, and if the other teambis leading you have to play a higher value if possible - if you can't follow and the other team is leading the trick, you must play a trump - it is not permitted to play a lower value trump card unless you have nothing else A trick mostly plays itself when the first card is played, so the strategy lies mostly in decising what to open with, or how high to follow.
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Lorini posted:Black people Spades or white people Spades? Very different games while using the same base mechanic. I was shocked when I first came across white people Spades, I didn't know people played that way. In case you didn't know, black people Spades uses a mechanic called board. Board is where the table decides how many tricks you must take to score. So if Board is four, then you must bid at least four and take at least four to make your bid. Black people don't play null, I hadn't heard of that until I encountered white people playing Spades. In NE Texas everyone (black and white) plays a domino game called 42, preferably while drinking, and occasionally poker.
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Jedit posted:I absolutely detested Tichu. It's on my very short list of "games I'd rather play nothing than play". Yeah but like some of the others on your list, tichu is a good game.
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Lorini posted:Black people Spades or white people Spades? Very different games while using the same base mechanic. I was shocked when I first came across white people Spades, I didn't know people played that way. In case you didn't know, black people Spades uses a mechanic called board. Board is where the table decides how many tricks you must take to score. So if Board is four, then you must bid at least four and take at least four to make your bid. Black people don't play null, I hadn't heard of that until I encountered white people playing Spades. I actually listed spades but didn't want to say black people spades because it might be a little iffy for me to say that. Basically everyone should at least read threads in the great race space, if not comment in them without being careful.
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rydiafan posted:My mother and I have started playing Loser's Cribbage. It's the exact same game, but whoever gets 121 first loses. There's something satisfying about throwing a pair of 5s into your opponent's crib. That last sentence hurts me.
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rydiafan posted:Can't if you have a legal play. There's more to 7 Blunders than just "try to lose 7 Wonders". It's surprisingly well designed. Sushi No! Party was tons of fun. I've never been so happy to see another person reveal a Miso soup alongside me or pass me a lonely sashimo as my last card of the round.
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Vivian Darkbloom posted:What are your favorite card games playable with a 52-card standard deck? My family likes Oh Hell which is a trick-taking game involving bidding, but I feel it takes a little long to play in the way that we play it (19 rounds!) If you have german friends you should ask them about skat, doppelkopf or schafkopf. these are team trick taking games where the teams change from round to round. at the start of the round you dont know who your partner(s) will be. complicated at first, but very fun. other than that, durak. its from russia and plays fast and mean. discount cathouse fucked around with this message at 13:33 on Feb 19, 2018 |
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We played a ton of durak growing up with my Western Canadian German background grandparents. I have no idea how to play it anymore though. A lot of Euchre too, but mostly I just remember a lot of cheating in the Euchre.
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