You might want to skip forward about 40 more years to be on the safe side.

I will have to update my bookmarks but the new URL scheme looks much nicer! I like the UI changes too. Can't wait to see this on my instance.

I don't have a group for it but I like the theme. Give these people air Cohaagen!

Easy way to remember: with -L you are binding the port Locally, with -R you are binding the port remotely.

Thanks for the review! Deus and Troyes by the same designer are some of my favoites but I slept on this one. I hope it gets a new print someday.

As usual, it depends:

Splendor pros:

• Plays 2-4 (vs strictly 2 for Duel)
• Simpler rules, easier to teach
• Larger chips, better tactility
• Expansion available

Splendor Duel pros:

• Rules and components optimized for 2p
• Nicer card art (subjective)
• More decisions, more interesting draft, multiple win conditions
• Much smaller box, reasonably sized for the game (unlike the original)

If you plan on playing with more than 2 then original Splendor is the obvious choice. It's still a decent choice even if you will only ever play at 2 but value the simplicity and purity of the original design.

Duel is a more interesting game thanks to the new draft and multiple win conditions. "More" and "more interesting" is not automatically better under all circumstances though.

Personally I am keeping both even though we almost always play at 2. We play Duel more but sometimes I just want to play regular Splendor and Duel is not a 1-1 replacement.

The Duel box conveniently fits inside the original's box (insert tossed). I am no longer planning to get the Cities of Splendor expansion thoguh, Duel is filling the "Splendor with more stuff" space nicely.

For 7 Wonders it's more clear cut, Duel is a much better option for 2p.

For Agricola the two games are almost too different to compare. All Creatures (big box) is great in its own way but doesn't feel like a replacement for the original.

Very useful!
I was gonna ask if it might be possible to include the table inline in the post but it looks like Lemmy doesn't support markdown tables yet.

Thiefdom looks neat, more The Mico art is always nice.

Baby Splendor is great, Bruno Cathala doing what he does best!

We tried the 2-player variant of Cat in the Box. It works fine but it left me feeling that a better 2p variant should be possible. Seems too easy to tie the tricks and avoid paradoxes. Might be our lack of experience with the game, maybe it's different with a more aggressive playstyle? I have some ideas for tweaking it but I want to play it more first to better understand the game.

Would love to hear other experiences, especially about the 2p variant.

Also learned Challengers, online only on BGA so far but thinking about picking it up. Love it when a game doubles down on a core idea and makes it work. In this case it's focusing entirely on the deckbuilding portion of deckbuilders with with the round playing out mostly automatically, sort of like in auto-battler video games. It also reminded me of some other games I like: Tea for 2 and Baseball Highlights: 2045.

That video is more about managing the a large deck by splitting it and doing it to casino standards, meant it more as an interesting tidbit than a tutorial.

This 2 minute video explains the shuffle itself in detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvLE_MCNOe4

Table-riffle, split into smaller decks if needed. Easy to learn and not too bad on the cards since you bend them much less than you'd with a regular riffle.

I enjoyed watching this video about how the pros do it.

I am giving it the same treatment that the other social media sites get. No contributions, no direct access if I can avoid it, browser redirects to go through a libredit instance if I land on it.

The current mess made me realize that:

1. WTF, reddit has like a billion users now? When did that happen? That's a good reason in itself to leave.
2. I had an unhealthy relationship with the site. Feels liberating to leave behind my biggest online addiction.

To be fair Ascension is really good too and they have done some cool stuff with the trade row in some sets for example the day/night cards in War of Shadows. I didn't include Ascension in my island picks but I would be very happy if it turned up on the beach, especially if it's my favorite sets!

Funny timing, I learned about the original about an hour ago and just finished playing a couple games on BGA. Very fun game! Reminds me of auto-battlers and Tea for 2.

This is the fastest I've gone from not knowing about a game to being excited about the sequel/expansion.

Mottainai and maybe War Chest. Or if I have some basic tools I could make my own War Chest set.
A bunch of dice preferably in multiple colors and a standard deck of cards (or one of those fancy decks with extra suits and symbols) would be a great treasure too.

We are 99% 2p so if I want to play it I pretty much have to buy it.

Naturally I spend a lot of time researching before I buy. Having a good digital implementation (especially on BGA or Yucata) is extremely helpful and it's probably the best way to sell me a game.

Varieties of human appendages and protrusions are exciting to us but probably pretty boring for a changeling.

I like your picks! Make sure to check out Newton if haven't already. I almost passed it over because of the boring looking box and only picked it up because of a sale and "well, it's a Luciani, can't be too bad".
It's one of our favorites now. It has tracks and map (and a tree!) similar to Tiletum, card market and play which is different from Lorenzo but very cool in its own way and neat interactions between parts of the board. The 2nd edition has some expansions included that are easy to mix in. There is also a digital version on Yucata.

What's your usual player count? I skipped Furnace so far because I am not sure how well it would work at 2.

Yaye, new 2F game, hope we see more details soon. Looks like a Friday/Finished sized box right? I wonder how that board will fit in there. Or maybe it's bigger, hard to tell from the pics.

Space frogs made me think of Raumpatrouille (tv show) and Cosmic Frog.

catch a mole find a hole

the rest

catch a mole find a hole
jump right down and start to roll
boogie down and find a clue
its red magenta green or blue
don't get too far behind the times
just try to find the right alchiems
the task is plain with eight the same
the monolith is yours to claim

hint1

80s

hint2

Spectrum