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What did you play in the last week. Recommendations, warnings and experiences are all intersting!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

We tried the 2-player variant of Cat in the Box. It works fine but it left me feeling that a better 2p variant should be possible. Seems too easy to tie the tricks and avoid paradoxes. Might be our lack of experience with the game, maybe it's different with a more aggressive playstyle? I have some ideas for tweaking it but I want to play it more first to better understand the game.

Would love to hear other experiences, especially about the 2p variant.

Also learned Challengers, online only on BGA so far but thinking about picking it up. Love it when a game doubles down on a core idea and makes it work. In this case it's focusing entirely on the deckbuilding portion of deckbuilders with with the round playing out mostly automatically, sort of like in auto-battler video games. It also reminded me of some other games I like: Tea for 2 and Baseball Highlights: 2045.

[โ€“] WarmRegards 1 points 2 years ago

Also just tried the 2-player variant of Cat in the Box yesterday and didn't really enjoy it. I love it at 3+, though.