conuly, posts by tag: games - LiveJournal (original) (raw)
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conuly, posts by tag: games - LiveJournal Believing in six impossible things before breakfast | |
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04:24 pm January 24th, 2010 | |
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I've been playing Carcassonne online a lot lately. (Because I've been bored.)The bots are incredibly stupid. They never steal. They never, of course, prepare for the possibility of having their field or road or city stolen. They deliberately build cities and roads to get immediate points NOW... even if what they're doing means they can't close that city or road (or even keep building on it, particularly if there's a builder). They never close a city just to get the tokens or to force somebody to have to re-place their builder.But, you know, they're bots. They don't think.As I play, I'm starting to wonder something. A few somethings, actually.1. Using the tiles from the standard Carcassonne, could you connect all the road pieces to each other? Or all the city pieces to each other?2. Could you do this in such a way that you have no open ends left?3. If so, could you repeat the feat with various of the expansions?Obviously that would never happen in a real game, but could you do it for fun?Tags: games, thoughtsI'm feeling:  bored |
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12:43 pm June 20th, 2009 | |
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This is really awesome http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrixGo ahead - start clicking on the grid :) You can drag your mouse as well.Edit: I just realized - you can c+p other people's stuff in! You have to right click to paste. So copy this string: 0,0,0,896,3136,4128,8288,16576,16576,8288,4128,3136,896,0,0,0Go on, try it out :)Or how about this one: 73730,640,74244,128,81936,2,4,8,69890,4,8,73970,0,0,65544,4It reminds me a lot of this game.Tags: games, links, musicI'm feeling:  bouncy |
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10:11 am May 14th, 2009 | |
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Evangeline and I played Duck, Duck, Bruce today. And we also played a round of Memory with our new set. (I gave away the old one, with the whole "first games" set, to Ana's school. It was the only one of those games we played, and it was impossible to store.)Both those games have boxes that take up waaaaaay more space than the game requires (Sherlock (which I advise you to get) is another one, and it itself came shipped in this box which was a zillion times huger than the box containing the game itself. WTF?), which is so annoying.I measured it. The Memory cards take up exactly 20% of the box they're in. Okay, so sure, you want some room to get the cards out of the box - but still, the box could've been a quarter of its actual size! I'd pay extra not to have to punch them out myself, anyway. Duck, Duck, Bruce comes in the standard-sized Gamewright box - all their boxes are a good 25% larger than the games they contain. Given that they're all card games, would it be so hard to stick the rules on a few extra cards and put the whole thing in a standard deck-of-cards box instead of a container with a lid and all? It's save space on the shelf, that's for sure.Got a set of Apples to Apples Kids for Ana's school, and, although the box is appropriately sized the cards are insanely flimsy. I'm not sure I want to entrust this to a group of small children - or big children for that matter. Is there a way to remedy this? Help me, guys! You're my only hope!Tags: daily stuff, games, rantlings, thoughtsI'm feeling:  bitchy |
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10:21 pm April 10th, 2009 | |
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I've been getting games for Ana's school, as you know. Doing it in bits in pieces - this month games, next month jump ropes, month after more games, most likely... maybe get a few over the summer, give them in one fell swoop when September comes around.On a whim, when we were at B&N picking up Yet Another copy of Sleeping Queens (the school is thus getting a new set and our castoff deck as well. We're now on our THIRD deck, I believe) I decided to also get a copy of Duck, Duck, Bruce.There are ten types of duck, and each type can come in 1, 2, 3, or 4 ducks. Your goal is to collect the highest possible duck from each category. (At the end of the game, you only get points from the highest ducks you own, the rest are tossed in the discard pile.) So you flip, and flip, and flip the cards. If you get doubles, or the dog, some of your cards that you've flipped have to be discarded. And there's a way to steal from other people as well, BUT they might end up stealing from you instead.It's actually a lot less complicated than I just made it sound, LOL.I thought I'd just test-drive this game before passing it off to the school. BIG MISTAKE - the kids love it, so now I'll have to buy *another* set to pass off!Evangeline loves it because she keeps winning. This isn't because she's any good at the game (she's not sure of what she's going for yet, though we're working on it) but because she's disgustingly lucky.Ana thinks she understands how to play, so she's very cautious. Consequently, she's usually the last loser, because she's *too* cautious.Today we played and Evangeline, for a change, got a very low score. I got a pretty low score (we ended the game early because 'dul came home), and Ana was two points below me.You know, you shouldn't let kids win. It's bad for them. But she'd lost so often, and been such a (reasonably) good sport about it that... I confess, when she asked my score I just lied. "Oh, I was two points below you. You win, Ana!"I may go to heck for that, but the grin on her face makes it all worth it. Surely it's okay to let her win sometimes if she doesn't find out and we don't make a habit of it... right? Right?Tags: daily stuff, games, thoughtsI'm feeling:  anxious |
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03:22 pm February 3rd, 2009 | |
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10:28 pm January 22nd, 2009 | |
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07:20 pm May 14th, 2008 | |
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09:14 pm February 26th, 2008 | |
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Ye gods. We really have been playing Carcassonne every night around here.So now I need to do a few things.1. I need to find some more people to play with in the city besides my mother. Just two people gets boring, and Jenn is unavailable many nights. I may have to resort to kidnapping my family friends, and as most of them (all of them) have young children... it'd be havoc. I don't know what to do!2. I need to get more expansions. I really intend to get Abbey and Mayor next month, the second I get paid. And I was thinking about that, and I saw the list of unofficial expansions, and I like some of those tiles. Not all of them - I only would ever use pretty tiles in my game! - but some of them. So I may well buy a new game just to glue on new tops. Because I'm like that, and because I would love a city with a double-rivered spring.3. I need to get a new yellow builder meeple. I've been playing gray, and I don't want to play gray, I want my yellow builder back! And I went here, and sure, purple meeples, great, and orange meeples, terrific - but they don't seem to have any builders. *sniffle*4. I need a Carcassonne icon. *nodnodnod* Tags: carcassonne, games, whinesI'm feeling:  calm |
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02:53 pm January 22nd, 2008 | |
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Emotionally, I'm feeling a little better, thanks. Physically, I *am* feeling better, but on the real 22nd, I spend most of the day pooing, farting, or wishing I could do either, my stomach hurt too much :(All our Carcassonne expansions have come in (we've got Inns and Cathedrals, Traders and Builders, the second River, and the super special one that was in that magazine), and my mom and I each thoroughly got trounced by the other one time last night. That was great... halfway, anyway.Tags: daily stuff, gamesI'm feeling:  cheerful |
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06:22 pm January 19th, 2008 | |
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12:38 am December 7th, 2007 | |
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06:15 pm January 7th, 2006 | |
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12:04 am December 11th, 2005 | |
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08:57 pm July 30th, 2005 | |
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03:25 am July 26th, 2005 | |
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12:45 am July 13th, 2005 | |
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12:12 am June 5th, 2005 | |
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*grins* I dug up my Sim City 3000. I love that game. And do you know why? Subways. I can spend hours fixing up my subway system, making sure everything's connected, eliminating loops. I love me my subways. I mean, I also like being rich, and having tons of landmarks, but that's easy since I use all the cheat codes I can find. I really just like playing around with my subway system. Roads are boring. Trains are... well, a nice layer, now that I'm used to them, but not much more interesting than roads. Subways? Subways are coooooool.Tags: gamesI'm feeling: bouncy |
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