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Anders Nordstrom {Avid Gamer}
Aug 26th, 2011| Rule
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“Reshuffle the tiles!”

For a harder game, don’t put old tiles to rest face up when someone guess their numbers. Instead, expose the old numbers, let someone pick three new tiles and then reshuffle the tiles along with the freshly exposed ones. Now people must remember that when people get new tiles they MAY have gotten recycled tiles, so they cannot simply strike out more copies of that particualr number/colour.

We tried to play with the real rules and max number of players, but after some faulty guesses we almost ran out of tiles, and once basicly all tiles are face up anyone can figure out their own numbers, especially if you follow the standard rule of winning after three correct guesses.

Personally I think the game is more fun with reshuffling, and it adds another dimension to the deduction part.

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Anders Nordstrom {Avid Gamer}
Sep 24th, 2011| Tip
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“Keep track of your notes!”

The pyramid with all the numbers is of course great to cross out invalid candidates. However, it’s vital that you keep track of actual tiles you can dismiss (mostly by observing them elsewhere) and candidates you dismiss because of other information.

For instance, let’s say you’ve allready seen a blue 7, and strike it on your chart. Later on you get a clue that leads you to the conclusion that you cannot have two blue sevens, so you strike two more, leaving just one blue 7 as a candidate. After this someone make a guess and draw a blue 7 as part of their new tileset. At this stage it’s REALLY important to know that you cannot strike the last candidate, because the newly drawn tile can very well be one of the candidates you dismissed because of the clue.

If you use the rule to reshuffle used tiles when someone draws a fresh set this is even more important.

Personally I strike out (with a fat X) any candidate that I’ve seen personally and know for a fact cannot be mine. I make squares around the ones I’ve dismissed on other grounds, and if I see any such candidate I “upgrade” it with an X.

I’ve seen more than one person not realising the difference between different forms of dismissing before it’s to late.

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