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Gosu

3-Nov-13

Rule: “Drafting variant”

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After you’ve played the game a number of times, and you have a good understanding of the cards and their synergy, you can try drafting at the beginning of the game as interesting variant.

To elaborate for those unfamiliar with drafting mechanics: after drawing your seven cards at the beginning of the game, pick one of the cards to keep, and pass the remaining six to the next player (pick left or right at the start, it needs to be consistent). This will also result in the player in the opposite direction having passed you six cards; pick one of those and pass the remaining five. Continue until all the cards have been picked. (You will just keep the last card handed to you as you’re “picking” from a single option.)

As I mentioned at the beginning, this is something that you would only want to try with a group that is already familiar with the game. Both because someone that isn’t as familiar with the available cards won’t have the knowledge to draft wisely, and drafting will generally make the start of the game more aggressive as players will have more control over their tempo. That control will of course fade after a while as normal card drawing actions occur, so knowing how to play without having constructed your hand is still vital.

Apples to Apples

15-May-13

Tip: “Cycle through all the cards”

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The first couple of times I played this with friends we noticed that we were seeing a lot of the same cards, far more than expected. So now after a game we put all of the discards into the box first, and then put playing card jokers on them (though of course anything distinct from the apple cards will work). Then the next time we play we don’t pull those under the jokers out, and as a result we cycle through all the cards and get as few repeats as possible.

We also do this for Cards Against Humanity.

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