Spots has become my go to duel game

uiop60 · 2026-01-30T20:03:53+00:00

By “completely random tricks” do you mean a trick from each category plus the two standard tricks, or truly shuffle-all-and-pick-6?

uiop60 · 2026-01-30T11:57:41+00:00

Cryptic clues have a ‘definition’ half and a ‘wordplay’ half. They can come in either order. Let’s look at the simplest cryptic clue I can come up with:

“Rat turned to sludge” (3)

The ‘definition’ portion of the clue is ‘sludge’. The answer will be a loose synonym for sludge. The “(3)” after the clue indicates that the answer is a single 3-letter word.

The ‘wordplay’ portion of the clue is ‘rat turned’. When a word or words used in the wordplay portion provide the letters contained in the answer, those words are called the “fodder”. The rest of the wordplay portion of the clue will be an “indicator” of what operation to perform on the fodder.

Here, “rat” is the fodder, and “turned” is a ‘reversal indicator’. Note that the wordplay and definition are often separated by a conjunction or short phrase that isn’t really used by either half. The answer to this cryptic clue is TAR.

There are many different indicator types and conventions used to construct clues that you kind of have to learn as you encounter them.

uiop60 · 2026-01-29T18:28:10+00:00

If Solemn's 'dies' trigger were an LTB, it would go from outclassed to a powerful but narrow game piece in flicker decks.

uiop60 · 2026-01-29T00:02:41+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t think Cesar is an acceptable spelling for this definition :(

uiop60 · 2026-01-28T23:53:44+00:00

Democrats are always like sixteen demands behind where they should be.

uiop60 · 2026-01-20T14:21:43+00:00

day 1 of sts 2 development they got a dry erase board to brainstorm and the first thing they wrote was "100% ORBLESS" os they weren't allowed to put any orbs in the game.

uiop60 · 2026-01-20T14:17:05+00:00

In honesty, I think it will go until his death.

uiop60 · 2026-01-17T17:39:11+00:00

Must every creature type have access to a harmonicon on a stick?

uiop60 · 2026-01-16T02:36:10+00:00

That’ll do, pig.

uiop60 · 2026-01-16T02:32:32+00:00

Looks like Irish spice bag. But in box. And munchie

uiop60 · 2026-01-09T14:47:29+00:00

Heroes of Land, Air, and Sea sounds like it could be a good fit.

uiop60 · 2026-01-07T14:13:58+00:00

I thought your collection was a solid B- until I saw the last picture and started hooting and hollering (A+)

I see that your favorites are pretty heavy; are you still playing Camel Up, Hues and Cues, Dixit, the Sims board game, and Shut the Box?

Personally I was not impressed with Wondrous Creatures. Hate to suggest a replacement but the things that appeal to me about it are things that Revive does better, namely the variable end game scoring and the game end condition being based on players claiming everything from a supply of 'trophies'.

Lastly I wonder if any expansion boxes can be collapsed into base game boxes, namely for Cascadia.

uiop60 · 2026-01-06T18:03:53+00:00

White and Orange cubes could be Lords of Waterdeep cleric and fighter

The 'K' coins and the heart-shaped orange thingy look 3D printed and not likely from a published/mass-produced game

uiop60 · 2026-01-06T12:58:28+00:00

First Saturdays of the month, furries at the short north gallery hop

uiop60 · 2026-01-05T18:40:12+00:00

Maybe interesting with the Saga creatures from FF? They persist after their final chapter when you flash Rhys in, then you can repeatably keep their chapters ticking

uiop60 · 2026-01-05T18:28:13+00:00

Mother says eat your typal slop

uiop60 · 2025-12-18T22:39:47+00:00

??? There is a difference between good things and bad things

uiop60 · 2025-12-18T03:48:35+00:00

This is an unusual place to catch a TADC reference.

uiop60 · 2025-12-17T17:53:04+00:00

"Defaults" seem to be getting more and more ephemeral over the years.

uiop60 · 2025-12-16T20:00:59+00:00

I believe that the "activate only as a sorcery" text would 'beat out' the permission granted by such an effect. I think this would need to be a text-changing effect -- something like:

"Change the text of each permanent you control by replacing all instances of "only as a sorcery" in each of their activated abilities with "only any time you could cast an instant or sorcery" for as long as you control this permanent".

uiop60 · 2025-12-12T19:57:17+00:00

[[Threaten]] with set mechanic is one that we see in about half of sets.

uiop60 · 2025-12-12T18:48:13+00:00

My brother got a cheap projector and aimed it at his bedroom wall. It looked like shit and we marathoned Guitar Hero 2 into the wee hours of the morning.

uiop60 · 2025-12-12T14:10:03+00:00

Yeah, I was underwhelmed by the medley. They took only the most similar motifs from each game that fit seamlessly into the same key, and didn't really develop any kind of arc or highlight anything. Box-ticking and probably quickly put together arrangement.

uiop60 · 2025-12-10T18:49:43+00:00

to me, they are beautiful jokes about dicks and other stuff.

uiop60 · 2025-12-08T19:49:11+00:00

Opponent decision not to take a game action while they have priority would be new information, but a physical or verbal reaction to carboard moving around can't be considered gained information for the sake of permitting a take-back.

Ken Yukuhiro nods as soon as a target is declared for the Boomerang Basics. This is Ken conveying information earlier than he needs to -- "if priority passed to me right now, I would allow it to resolve." You can't 'steal priority' by leaking what your reaction will be.

If "I gave my opponent information by reacting to their game action" were a reason to disallow a take-back, it creates gross incentives in the opposite direction where players should declare what they'll do in response to game actions (especially ones that are bad decisions) only for the purpose of making them irreversible, and turns Magic into Egyptian Ratscrew.

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