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CV

4-Jul-16

“Sometimes friends from an orchestra are more valuable than marriage”

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“CV” is a light dice-rolling card game of living a life from childhood to senility. Despite the title, abbreviation of “curriculum vitæ,” the game is not only about having a career and making your résumé look good, but about health, knowledge, relationships, and wealth as well.

The game mechanics revolves around marketplace of cards representing various life events or accomplishments like “Marriage,” “Apartment bought from friend,” or “Wikipedia author.” The cards get acquired through a “Yahtzee”-style dice throwing which is familiar for those who played “King of Tokyo” or “BANG! The Dice Game.” The bought card usually increases purchasing power or adds victory points, but sometimes itself becomes a liability requiring additional spending every turn.

Over the course of the game each player accumulates cards involuntarily telling a story, which could be a classic marriage-house-children-retirement novel or an adventurous freelance-travelling-friends-blogging one.

The game is very approachable with a light humour and amusing illustrations. If the play time was a bit shorter it would have been a perfect warm-up game for any board game evening.

CV

4-May-16

Tip: “Clarification about Marathon runner, Celebrity, and Professor cards”

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Even though the rules don’t say explicitly that these cards count as double for the life goals, make sure to do so for those as well not just for the set collection score part (it was confirmed by the designer in a BGG forum).

CV

4-May-16

Tip: “Clarification about social assistance and game end tie resolution”

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Note that when the rules refer to “CV cards” it is always about all but non-event card types you have purchased not just the Work cards, even though the later ones have the “CV” label in the corner. E.g., in case of social assistance it says:

A player is eligible if some other player has at least twice as many CV cards than the player needing social assistance.

So a player needs to count all their non-event cards. The same goes for the tie resolution in case of a tie in the game end. We played a couple of games wrong because the Work cards confusingly have the “CV” label in the corner.

7 Wonders: Cities

3-Apr-16

Tip: “Two Diplomacy tokens in one era”

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One sometimes overlooked rule is about what to do when one player acquires two Diplomacy tokens in one era (e.g., via the Hagia Sophia of Byzantium wonder and the Consulate card) — whether both tokens must be discarded at the end of the era or just one. However, there is a clarification about it stating: “A player can take multiple Diplomacy tokens but must discard one during each Conflict resolution.”

Kill Doctor Lucky

11-Sep-15

Rule: “Read the Flavour Text Aloud”

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All the failure cards have flavour text, so make it mandatory as a house rule to read it aloud every time one plays it in attempt to prevent murder. The texts are rather amusing, and it would make the play less dry.

Jaipur

7-Sep-15

Tip: “Good Moment to Grab Camels”

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If it happens during the game that your opponent has just taken a bunch of cards from the market getting his hand full and the cards on the marketplace are now all or almost all camels then it’s a great chance to take the camels. Since most probably your opponent took the cards he or she wants to sell, the new cards on the market will be safe, and you could exchange your camels to the new riches on your next turn.

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Titans Tacitcs

20-Jun-17 | Link to comment

There is a typo in the title: “Tactics,” not “Tacitcs.”

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Viticulture

30-Jun-16 | Link to comment

@Account Deletion Great! Thanks for the quick fix. I also noticed that Tuscany page doesn’t have tabs for tips and discussion. Is it by design? Other games expansions pages have them though.

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