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  • Looking for engaging standard deck card games for 2 players [closed]


    I’m looking for 2 player card games that need only a standard deck of 52+3. Something with a bit of strategy and conning would be perfect.

    I enjoy playing Texas Hold’em poker in larger groups but poker scales terribly down to 2 players. I’m looking for something with a similar charm — with complex strategy that involves fooling your opponent.

    Also would like a game that’s easy to bet on. I mostly play socially with acquaintances, so let’s not make the game too convoluted to explain to someone, and let’s allow conversation to flow in a slower paced game.



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  • Fblthp, the Lost and Naktamun Shines Again interaction


    I am playing Fblthp, the Lost and Naktamun Shines Again in MTG-Arena. When the second chapter triggers and seeks a Fblthp, why do I draw 1 card and not 2?

    Fblthp, the Lost (relevant abilities)

    When Fblthp enters, draw a card. If it entered from your library or was cast from your library, draw two cards instead.

    Naktamun Shines Again (chapter 2)

    Seek a creature card with mana value 2 or less and put it onto the battlefield.



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  • Is it possible to score higher than 92 in Boggle using only US state names? [closed]


    Given a 5 X 5 Boggle grid, is it possible to score higher than 92 points using only US state names ("District of Columbia" is not included)? No spaces are used, so North Carolina becomes NORTHCAROLINA, and no double-counting of letters is allowed (for example, for HAWAII, cannot double-tap on "I" in a single grid space.) It is known that the following 5 x 5 arrangement of letters yields 92 points (there is a rumor a 105-point solution was found, but it is not available):

    SUTHC
NORAD
AILKS
STONA
IUMWT

    In summary, the state names found (and points) are represented in shorthand by the following USPS two-letter mnemonics:
    NC-13, SC-13, ND-11, SD-11, LA-9, AR-8, MT-7, AK-6, KS-6, IA-4, UT-4 when spelled out they give a total of 92 points. The "UIS" in the lower left corner was used to capture LOUISIANA, but could conceivably be improved upon.

    It has been suggested that the counts of occurrences of letters in state names might be useful:

    A 63
I 45
N 43
O 36
S 34
E 29
R 22
T 19
L 17
H 16
M 15
C 13
D 11
W 11
K 10
G 9
U 8
Y 6
V 5
P 4
B 2
F 2
X 2
J 1
Z 1
Q 0



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  • Riddle "Not actual size" [closed]


    There is a game which I have played multiple times. I think the box should have a label saying, "Not actual size". What is the name of the game?



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  • How many cards can Restorative Burst return?


    Restorative Burst says

    Return up to two target creature, land, and/or planeswalker cards from your graveyard to your hand. Each player gains 4 life. Exile Restorative Burst.

    I’m questioning if that means 2 or 6 possible returns because in my mind if it said

    Return target creature, land and planeswalker….

    It would definitely be one of all 3. So the addition of "up to 2" and "and/or" to me feels like its the option to return anything from one of one of them which would the the reason for or, to 2 of each of them which would be the reason for and.

    Is this right? I feel that’s a lot to pay for only 2 cards.



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  • How to program Boggle game [closed]


    I’m interested in learning more about programming a variant of Boggle. The objective is to fit as many US state names as possible into a 5 X 5 Boggle grid. It is known, for example that the following 5 x 5 arrangement of letters will yield the list of spelled-out state names (represented below by their shorthand codes and points). According to the Boggle scoring rules, 92 points. No double counting allowed. Is it possible to score higher than 92? How do I write a program to methodically investigate this question?:
    SUTHC
    NORAD
    AILKS
    STONA
    IUMWT
    NC-13, SC-13, ND-11, SD-11, LA-9, AR-8, MT-7, AK-6, KS-6, IA-4, UT-4 for a total of 92 points.



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  • What is the best "first move" in Scrabble?


    In Woody Allen’s (fictional) The Gossage–Vardebedian Papers, first published in The New Yorker in January 1966 and later collected in his book Getting Even (1971) (in turn later collected into the book The Insanity Defense (2007)), the last of a sequence of letters ends with the absurd idea of playing Scrabble over correspondence:

    […] I accept your invitation to Scrabble in good spirits. Get out your set. […] I shall make the first play. The seven letters I have just turned up are O, A, E, J, N, R, and Z—an unpromising jumble that should guarantee, even to the most suspicious, the integrity of my draw. Fortunately, however, an extensive vocabulary coupled with a penchant for esoterica, has enabled me to bring etymological order out of what, to one less literate, might seem a mishmash. My first word is "ZANJERO." Look it up. Now lay it out, horizontally, the E resting on the center square. Count carefully, not overlooking the double word score for an opening move and the fifty-point bonus for my use of all seven letters. The score is now 116—0.

    Your move.
    Gossage

    So Allen has come up with an initial word that scores highly. (I don’t know whether the 116 is correct—it seems high considering this question about typical Scrabble scores—but it does seem like it would be a high-scoring initial word.)

    Of course he made up this game / picked this word for comedic effect, but it gets me to wonder: what would be the highest possible score in Scrabble after the first move? (And what word(s) would achieve it?) And of the best initial words, where is ZANJERO on that list?

    (I imagine it should be possible to exhaustively enumerate this by trying all words of up to 7 letters from a dictionary and all allowed ways of placing them on an empty board, and maybe someone has already done it, but I couldn’t find it.)

    Edit: The question What is the highest game score theoretically possible in Scrabble using 1 player and the International Scrabble Dictionary? asks a similar question, about the highest possible score at the end of a single-player game, while this question is about the highest possible score after just the first move (whether one player or two or more).



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  • How do the Creature-Saga work regarding the attack phase?


    If, after the transformation of the Crystal Fragments card, the Summon: Alexander card comes into play, basically the "creature" part of this enchantment-saga-creature it will be able to attack ONLY ONCE.
    In fact:

    • the first turn in which it is in play (nm of lore counters:1)
      Alexander should be affected by summoning weakness;
    • the second turn
      (nm of lore counters: 2)
      is in fact the only one in which Alexander can actually attack;
    • the third turn, since the nm of lore counters has reached the value 3, Alexander will be sacrificed before the attack phase.

    Is the analysis just performed and related to this new card correct?
    Is there anything else to add?
    Thanks, regards.



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  • How would an effect have to be worded to allow merging multiple Mutate piles?


    I came across multiple questions about Mutate, and I figured that combining multiple Mutate piles into one single Mutate pile could potentially be quite interesting due to allowing for multiple non-Mutate creatures (and maybe even noncreatures that were creatures at the time of their original Mutate) in the pile. Now, the question is, how would an ability be worded to let that happen?

    I’m looking for the wording for one of the following, or both:

    • An effect that’s functionally a "Multi-Mutate N", letting you put a creature with it anywhere on, under or in between N creatures. The creatures can be stacked together in any order, but if any of them are Mutate piles, each pile must remain one continuous block (they can’t be reordered or interleaved with other cards in the pile).
    • An effect that targets 2 Mutate piles and combines them into one pile, with the same ordering restriction. Should only work for Mutate piles – neither non-Mutate creatures nor Mutate creatures should be targetable if they’re not a pile with 2 or more cards.

    Other kinds of effects that interact with Mutate piles (adding or removing cards, or working off of the number of cards in them) might be interesting too, but are probably more of a topic for a separate question.



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  • What is this game called? Or is it probably a family game?


    I need help identifying a card game I was taught by someone. I remember most of the rules except the "war" part. We played with two people and I can’t remember if it’s only a two player game or not.

    Dealing
    Deal out the entire deck of cards face down. Each player will have half the deck. Players aren’t allowed to look at their hand throughout the game and they aren’t allowed to shuffle their hand. With this method you can start to memorize them over time.

    War
    The part I remember here is players flip their top card. The high card will win out and stay the main player until the other player can beat it out.

    This is why I need help identifying the game because I don’t remember if there was a "catch" to winning the war other than having a high card. I also remember the losing player is accumulating cards somehow since you win by emptying your hand.

    Discarding
    You can only discard by arranging the cards by suite. I can’t remember if it goes king -> ace or ace -> king. All I remember is each suit is organized in order to discard.

    You can put down as many as you can while doing your "random draw" since you aren’t allowed to see the cards you have the entire game.

    I don’t remember if only the main player can discard or if anyone can as the cards pop up. There was a specific rule for this as well.

    Winning the game
    Discard your whole hand first.

    The person knew the rules very well and it was definitely a game they had played many times before based on how they played. The only thing I remember about the game was it had an "and" in it like "king and robber" or something like that.

    I know there is a chance this is just a family game as well. Thank you for your help!



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