Family Game Night (And the winner is...)

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So... I have no idea what's going on, going to read the rules now and hopefully vaguely know what to do later today.

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Robbery

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Fire

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Sent

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Robbery

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Floor Change

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Fire

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Move

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2 left

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That gem shouldn't be there, right?

@mallow, if that's the case I'd prefer to move 3 right instead of 2 left.

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Draw

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Floor Change

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Sent

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Robbery

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Well I'm terrible at this game irl, let's see if I'm better online.

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Discard 2 apple and 2 chicken.

Draw 2 bread from discard #1 and 2 cards from the deck.

Place an apple on each discard then a chicken on each discard.

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Still wrote chicken on the discard pile.

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5 Bread

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Because opening bags without contraband costs you money?

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Discard bread, 2 apples, 2 chicken, pick up 2 cheese from discard #1 and bread, cheese from discard #2 and 1 card from the deck.

Chicken, Apple to discard 1, bread, apple, chicken to discard 2.

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4 Cheese.

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You know Aura, I might be tempted to let you pass with 5 goods if you offered me 2 peppers.

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If you don't have any other contraband that's fair enough.

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Well JDGA, there's no contraband on the pile, but we might be able to make a deal for a large haul.

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So Aura, here's what I'm thinking, you getting three legal goods without restrictions and both of us getting half the take on the two peppers seems fair to me, but you'd be getting off pretty easy if you're lying about not having any other contraband.

So here's my proposal: You give me a pepper and all but one of your other contraband, so if it's indeed 2 peppers as you say it's an equal split, if you'd like to declare any other contraband now I'll let you for 2 gold a piece.

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Okay, deal.

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Correction, a pepper plus all but one of the rest, though that should be the same in practice.

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Any contraband you'd like to declare?

I have very reasonable import tariffs.

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If the pepper was your only contraband, like 4 gold or something.

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But you'd be able to get 4 other goods in without risk of inspection.

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SS, if that pepper is your only contraband I'll let you take it and four legal goods in any combination go for 4 gold. Slightly more gold/items if you want to import more than one contraband or 3 gold if you have a set of 4 the same goods.

BYF, you still have that pepper and crossbow you grabbed in turn 1 in hand right? If you give me the pepper and 1 gold you can keep the crossbow. And of course we can talk about any other contraband.

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Of course I totally believe you, but a pepper is worth more bringing it would just be good business.

/Best sheriff

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Because I like repeat customers?

And really in general I try to keep any promises I make in games unless doing so is literally playing against my wincon.

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Offer to let Aura pass for 1 pepper and all but one of the other contraband in her bag.

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So, BYF, you picked up 2 apples and are saying you're sending in 3, so why didn't you just pick up 3 apples and sent 4?

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I kinda want to check all three bags, but surely not all of you are lying...

BYF we can still work out a mutually beneficial deal if you honestly tell me what's in the bag.

Same goes for the other two.

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1 piece of contraband?

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I still maintain that 4 gold is perfectly reasonable. (though the 4 gold is under the assumption that some of the other 4 cards are legit but not matching goods.)

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Offer to let JDGA pass for 4 gold and all but one contraband in her bag

Offer to let JDGA pass for 3 gold and all but one non-bread in her bag

You can pick either one.

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BYF and SS could you at least say if you're not going to engage?

I can't tell whether you're not interested or just haven't seen the messages yet and there's no deadline because of Christmas.

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Open BYF's bag

Let Aura go for a pepper and all but one of the other contraband in her bag

Let JDGA go for 3 gold and all but one non-bread in her bag

*pulls out hair*

Let SS go

Literally spent >15 minutes going back and forth on that last one.

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Aura, how much for all that contraband?

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I'll let you sneak past as much as you want for a 50/50 cut of the loot. Will take the silk and let you have the crossbow if you plan to take the whole lot. I wouldn't want to let that contraband spill into a round and have some vulture scoop it up. Reasonable?

For the rest of you, I'm extremely open to offers if you want to get some extra goods past. I won't open any bags without first offering a reasonable alternative, so don't worry about fines too much.

There's also an opportunity cost to consider for not brining legal goods, so straight 50/50 wouldn't be fair.

I can make a 3 good legal hand, possibly 4 by drawing from the deck, the contraband is worth 35 gold, so that's a 25ish gold difference, splitting that 50/50 I end up with 12-13 as a fair price, so 2 peppers?

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Pick up pepper, silk, pepper, crossbow from discard 1, pepper from discard 2

Discard cheese, bread, cheese to 1, discard cheese, bread to 2

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5 Contraband.... I mean 5 cheese, 5 cheese yes.

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Offer Aura 2 peppers from bag to let me pass

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Take

Pepper Cheese Cheese

And 1 from the deck
Discard

Mead Bread

Apples Chicken

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4 Cheese

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Ah, you should have mentioned that before I picked up my cards, all legit goods here.

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Come on JDGA, I

told

you I only had legit goods.

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Pick up 2 bread from #1 and chicken bread from #2 and 1 from the deck

Discard

Mead Apple Cheese

Pepper Cheese

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5 bread

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Surely you don't want to take the risk of losing 10 gold?

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Silk Apples

Silk Cheese

Draw 4 from the deck.

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3 chicken

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Passing btw.

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Same deal as last time, anyone honestly tells me what they want to smuggle and I give a fair win-win proposal to let them through.

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Sure

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So Aura, want to make a deal?

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SS, if you pick up those 5 contraband I'll let you pass for 2.

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Sure.

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Well BYF, there's still 4 contraband to take, if you have one in hand we can make the same deal we agreed to last page.

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Aura, I'll let you take the silk for 4 gold, JDGA the 2 mead for one of them*

*separate pricing for any other contraband. Negotiating before submitting is always useful.

Though I suppose JDGA might want to bring in 4 bread and a mead for 3 gold?

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Any two is fine, less shenanigans that way.

And it's not low to say that at all, I would do the same if someone betrayed me.

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I think we have to wait until everyone has sent their good.

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What happened last time was entirely your own fault.

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Offer to let BYF pass for 2 contraband from his bag

Offer to let SS pass for 2 contraband from his bag

Now JDGA are you really sure you don't want to declare any contraband?

And Aura, 3 apples? That would be 6 gold and it still doesn't put you in the running for getting the most of them, even as a double bluff to get me to open your bag it doesn't seem that worthwhile.

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I'm not sure you can offer goods from your stand. Just 12 gold then?

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What happened last time was entirely your own fault.

My own fault for what, drawing a hand full of contraband then

accepting

an offer only to have it thrown in my face?

I specifically asked you whether you had one contraband, you didn't correct me so I made my offer in the assumption you did, then you accepted that offer instead of correcting me.

Anyway, the problem I have with what you sent in is that I don't believe there is actually a 4th bread in the deck.

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Ah, right, but BYF was just you bluffing and failing, there was no obligation on his part to accept your offer, same way I'm not obligated to accept any random offers you give me separate from my promise to give anyone a fair deal if you honestly declare.

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Anyway, back to square one, assuming for the sake of argument that you could have 4 bread, did you actually put them in your bag?

As for Aura, you're defenitely up to shenanigans, the only question is whether it's a bluff or a double bluff.

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kk

Offer to let SS pass for any 2 contraband from his stand or bag

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I guess I might as well make a final offer:

Offer to let JDGA pass for all non-bread in her bag

Offer to let Aura pass for all non-apples in her bag

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I'll open both your bags before I go to sleep tonight, so about 8 hours.

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Open Aura and JDGA's bags

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Place cheese, mead on discard 1.

/Best Sheriff

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So, JDGA, did you actually have a 4th bread in hand?

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Aura, 3 contraband for 1 contraband and 2 gold?

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Pick up mead, mead, cheese, chicken, cheese, silk from discard #1

Discard apples, mead, pepper to discard#1, mead, pepper, pepper to discard#2

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5 Cheese

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Offer to let Inspir pass for a mead from the bag and 2 gold

Accept

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Draw pepper, mead, chicken from discard 2

Discard apples, apples, silk to discard 2.

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3 chicken

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I'm defenitely going to try this "Honest dealmaker" strategy irl if I ever play this game again.

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Honestly I was completely surprised at how well it worked, at the start I just went with it because trying to guess who was bluffing through 2 sentences in text seemed like a hassle.

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ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

inspi

I'm terrible at Code Names.

I think I'm slightly less bad as solver?

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Iron

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Answers have to be confirmed before I name the second, right?

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Microscope

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I've got 5 left that might fit atom.

But I think

bond

is the most likely.

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Pass

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Mint

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Green

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Fish

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America

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So.....


Grace?

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gg
I was more aggressive than I needed to be with the herb clue (the one I was hoping for was part, but lol) and I was pretty much screwed from there.

Never would have gotten that, though it was one of the words I considered for Atom, but a bit down the list.

I mostly picked Grace because I thought it might have been for the herb clue, there's probably a herb out there somewhere called Gracesomething. No idea what France was supposed to refer to except for America being a country.

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Aurathebirb, since you won the last

Round Table

you will have your pick between 3 wonders!

Inspiratieloos, since you placed 2nd you will get to pick between 2 wonders!

Shouldn't this be the other way around.

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So... Is everyone playing this for the first time?

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My hand is the worst.

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It's the worst in the sense that there's so many good cards in there that I wanted to play, but just not quite enough that the really good stuff would wheel. Though I suppose there might still be something left when it comes to you?

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Yeah.... Inspie won :/
Science/Temple of Artemis OP

I read a strategy guide, it said "get a trade post, go lean on resources and use wonder gold to buy what you need, then do whatever." Seems to have been solid advise.

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Not really, it cost me 3 coins to build and it has saved me 4 coins so far for a net of 1, I'll probably get another 1-2 gold out of it on the last hand, still worse than the straight up coin paying age 2 cards, which would have netted me 6 coins at that point. Probably still the best play in that hand though.

That trade post though, that one has been doing work, netting 8 coins so far on an age 1 card.

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So... Anyone play this before?

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Fabric Warehouse

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And take the action.

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@Mallow, could you put all the Sultan's Palace and Gemstone Dealer requirements on the board with an indicator for which is current? The instructions don't really show them.

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Sorry about that, I thought I did, will fix!

Could you also put up what they'll be in the future, so we can plan ahead?

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Go to the Small Mosque and pick up the red bonus for 1 fabric.

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It will actually cost you 2 Fabric (all mosque tiles start at 2 of their good), but I think that's what you meant.

No, you need to have 2 (or more), but you pay only 1.

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You learn something new every day.

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Go to Tea House

8

Original Roll String: 2d6

2 6-Sided Dice: (5, 1) = 6

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Go to the Wainwright, pay 7.

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Condolences.

Though we should be fine playing on our own for a few turns, only a couple of locations require a mod.

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Tea House, 8

Original Roll String: 2d6

2 6-Sided Dice: (2, 5) = 7

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Use Red bonus to change 2 to 4, and pick up 8 coins.

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I think this is the game board now.

Current Game Board

1 Blue / 1 Green / 1 Red / 2 Yellow	Smuggler Governor		ATB Ast.
INS Ast.	2 Blue / 2 Red / 1 Yellow		ATB (1x) ATB Ast.
SS Fam INS Fam ATB Fam	RUBY COST: 1 red , 1 blue , 1 yellow , 1 green , and 1 W I L D	ATB Ast.
INS Ast.	INS (x1)	SS (x3) SS Ast. INS Ast.	RUBY COST: $14

Aura

Money: $4
Goods:

1/2

2/2

2/2

1/2

Bonus Card: 1

Inspiratieloos

Money: $14
Goods:

0/3

1/3

0/3

0/3

Bonus Card: 1

Something_Smart

Money: $4
Goods:

0/3

0/3

0/3

0/3

Bonus Card: 1

Edit: Apart from the post office image.

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Wainwright, pick up assistant, pay 7

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You forgot to change the text around the game board last post. It's SS's turn.

Fixed thanks!

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Go to Tea House, 8

Original Roll String: 2d6

2 6-Sided Dice: (4, 1) = 5

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Use Red bonus to re-roll

Original Roll String: 2d6

2 6-Sided Dice: (6, 4) = 10

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Take 2 coins

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Which card did SS discard?

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Go to the Police Station and send my family member to the Spice Warehouse.

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Small Mosque, take green bonus and a gem.

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Police Station, send the family member to the Black Market.... I'm sure he won't do anything that might get him arrested again there.

Rolling first

Original Roll String: 2d6

2 6-Sided Dice: (5, 2) = 7

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2 blues, take a free red.

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Great Mosque, take the blue bonus, +1 Assistant.

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Use bonus card to place my own family member back in prison and get the 3 coin reward.
Then move to the revolving door Police Station and send my family member to the Fruit Warehouse
Use the green bonus to get a blue resource.

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Great Mosque, get yellow bonus and a gem.

Btw Mallow, I think you forgot to remove 1 blue when I got the blue bonus.

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Sultan's Palace, use red for wild, get a gem.

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I used red for wild, not yellow.

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Caravansary, draw 1 card from the deck before making any other decisions.

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Take Free Good from the discard pile, discard Sultan's Palace 2x, then use the smuggler to trade a yellow for a blue.

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I'll go to the Fabric Warehouse, pay 2 to Aura and pay 2 for a blue good.

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Sultan's Palace, use red for wild, get a gem.

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Tea House, pay Aura 2, call 5.

Pro forma:

Original Roll String: 2d6

2 6-Sided Dice: (1, 1) = 2

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Take 5

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Wainwright, buy last cart extension, get a gem.

gg

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Though really, the game was pretty much over from turn 1, Fabric Warehouse->Small Mosque->Tea House->Wainwright is ridiculous.

Edit: And due to the nature of bonuses only one player can use it.

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Shame chess has long since been taken.

I'll ban Mancala.

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Well, not counting the mess I inherited from Xalxe I'm 3 for 3, let's hope that keep up.

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Something_Smart's Score:	5	0	6	5	5	5	1
1	0	4	4	4	4	4	Inspiratieloos' Score:

Something_Smart's Score:	0	1	7	6	6	6	1
1	0	4	4	4	4	4	Inspiratieloos' Score:

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Something_Smart's Score:	1	2	8	6	6	0	2
4	1	1	6	1	5	5	Inspiratieloos' Score:

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Something_Smart's Score:	0	1	8	6	6	0	2
12	0	0	8	0	0	5	Inspiratieloos' Score:

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Something_Smart's Score:	0	1	8	6	0	1	3
12	1	1	10	2	2	1	Inspiratieloos' Score:

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Something_Smart's Score:	0	1	8	6	0	0	4
12	1	1	11	3	0	1	Inspiratieloos' Score:

Something_Smart's Score:	0	1	0	7	1	1	5
12	1	1	12	4	1	2	Inspiratieloos' Score:

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SS starts.

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You already got a free win off a coinflip, so you don't get to complain about bad luck

Original Roll String: 6d6

6 6-Sided Dice: (4, 4, 6, 6, 4, 5) = 29

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Well then.

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There's a reason I kept banning this game

That is a bit of a problem with the format. Because everyone keeps picking the fun games and banning the unfun ones the finals end up with the chaff.

You could just concede and we'll move on to Take it Easy, which seems like it might actually be decently interesting

PEdit:

Original Roll String: 6d6

6 6-Sided Dice: (4, 4, 2, 2, 6, 1) = 19

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3 pair

Original Roll String: 6d6

6 6-Sided Dice: (1, 4, 6, 2, 6, 6) = 25

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keep the 1 (1600)

Original Roll String: 5d6

5 6-Sided Dice: (2, 5, 3, 2, 5) = 17

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Stop, 1750

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I'd be down for chess.

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Original Roll String: 6d6

6 6-Sided Dice: (1, 4, 1, 3, 6, 1) = 16

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keep the 5

Original Roll String: 5d6 (STATIC)

5 6-Sided Dice: (6, 4, 6, 4, 4) = 24

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rerolling because static

Original Roll String: 5d6

5 6-Sided Dice: (3, 6, 4, 1, 1) = 15

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keep the 1 (150)

Original Roll String: 4d6

4 6-Sided Dice: (6, 5, 3, 6) = 20

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keep the 5 (200)

Original Roll String: 3d6

3 6-Sided Dice: (3, 2, 3) = 8

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Stop (250+1750=2000)

Maybe wait for mallow to respond before continuing?

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Accept

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e4

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e4 e5 Nf3

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3

What's your rating?

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Fixed.

Should have stuck with Zilch

I'm ~1500.

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4

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I won a game very similar to this against a stronger player ~a week ago... Unfortunately I was on the other side of the board.

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I feel like I'm losing already, so I'm taking some time.

e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3

I was really tempted to play Nxf5, but that's probably a bad idea.

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2

Well whether Nxf5 is good is a moot point now.

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2 f4 Nge4

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2 f4 Nge4 Bd4 Ne2

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2 f4 Nge4 Bd4 Ne2 Bb6 Qb4

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2 f4 Nge4 Bd4 Ne2 Bb6 Qb4 O-O-O Bd2
Geez, twice in a row I thought I had played my move then come back later and see that I didn't. Sorry about that.

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?? ?

*takes out 11 foot pole and pokes chessboard*

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I'm going to sleep on this.

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2 f4 Nge4 Bd4 Ne2 Bb6 Qb4 O-O-O Bd2 c5 Qa3

Well then, I'm not seeing it, so show me what you've got.

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What did you think I was going to play?

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e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Bc4 Nf6 Ng5 d5 exd5 Na5 Bb5+ c6 dxc6 bxc6 Bd3 Ng4 Ne4 f5 Be2 h5 Ng3 Bc5 Bxg4 hxg4 Nc3 Ba6 d3 Qh4 Qd2 f4 Nge4 Bd4 Ne2 Bb6 Qb4 O-O-O Bd2 c5 Qa3 Bb7 Bxa5

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Just had an interesting game as white, my opponent offered a draw at move 24 (and about 8 more times after that), I'm pretty sure the position was dead drawn at that point but I declined because this was a 8v8 team game and we were down 3.5-1.5
1. e4 e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. d4 Bf5 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 c6 7. Nf3 Nf6 8. O-O Be7 9. Bg5 O-O 10. Ne2 Nbd7 11. Ng3 Re8 12. Rfe1 Qc7 13. Re2 Bd6 14. Nf5 Rxe2 15. Qxe2 Re8 16. Qd3 h6 17. Bh4 Ne4 18. Re1 Re6 19. Nxd6 Qxd6 20. Nd2 Nxd2 21. Qxd2 Rxe1+ 22. Qxe1 Qe6 23. Qxe6 fxe6 24. f3 g5 25. Bg3 Kf7 26. h4 Kf6 27. Kf2 e5 28. Ke3 Kf5 29. hxg5 hxg5 30. dxe5 Nxe5 31. Bxe5 Kxe5 32. g3 d4+ 33. Kd3 c5 34. c3 b5 35. cxd4+ cxd4 36. f4+ gxf4 37. gxf4+ Kxf4 38. Kxd4 a6 39. b4 Kf3 40. Kc5 Ke3 41. Kb6 Kd4 42. Kxa6 Kc4 43. Ka5
We ended up losing 5-3 unfortunately. OTOH I went 7 out of 7 this season.


1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4 Qg5 Qa6+

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4 Qg5 Qa6+ Kc7 Nc3

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4 Qg5 Qa6+ Kc7 Nc3 f3 Nd5+

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4 Qg5 Qa6+ Kc7 Nc3 f3 Nd5+ Rxd5 exd5

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Hadn't considered that one.

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4 Qg5 Qa6+ Kc7 Nc3 f3 Nd5+ Rxd5 exd5 g3 d6+

I spent waaaaay too long on this move.

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Btw I'll be V/LA for a week starting tomorrow.

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Qa4+

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1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5 c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8. Bd3 Ng4 9. Ne4 f5 10. Be2 h5 11. Ng3 Bc5 12. Bxg4 hxg4 13. Nc3 Ba6 14. d3 Qh4 15. Qd2 f4 16. Nge4 Bd4 17. Ne2 Bb6 18. Qb4 O-O-O 19. Bd2 c5 20. Qa3 Bb7 21. Bxa5 Bxe4 Bxb6 axb6 dxe4 Qg5 Qa6+ Kc7 Nc3 f3 Nd5+ Rxd5 exd5 g3 d6+ Kc6 Qa4+

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For me the soonest will probably be Sunday, maybe Saturday evening.

Why do we need to do it live though? Seems like we could easily play with two private topics.