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BalGAmor wrote: ↑20 July 2026, 13:01 Let’s hope that polka dots make a comeback after this game!

I would say that polka dots already came back with Khn and Klek de Poitrine

euklid314 wrote: ↑02 July 2026, 05:44

Ingoschi wrote: ↑02 July 2026, 00:42 5 (k=0) * (k=5) + (k=1) * (k=4) + (k=2) * (k=3) + (k=3) * (k=2) + (k=4) * (k=1) + (k=5) * (k=0) = 33,11%

The last line must be a typo, it should be 26.31%.

You're right. I've corrected it.

How did you calculate the percentages? Thank you for checking the calculations, I've to admit that I was mislead by Meta AI and posted wrong results. Meta AI also suggested the hypergeometric distribution but claimed that the result of nCr(5,0)*nCr(31,18)/nCr(36,18) or nCr(5,5)*nCr(31,13)/nCr(36,18...

There is still a probability of 0.02% that the deck contains not a single 6, so expect complains every 5000 games

How many 6s does the deck contain? (Same for 8)
# Probability
0 0.02%
1 0.36%
2 2.43%
3 7.40%
4 13.56%
5 16.68%
6 13.56%
7 7.40%
8 2.43%
9 0.36%
10 0.02%

How can cottar trigger afterwards, when you should get the clay immediatley after paying the costs of the clay oven?
Isn't paying the costs before building the improvement?

Sometimes the designers are not all that good at their own games. Is there any game for which the designer is better than the top 5 or ten players in the world at that same game? Why should a designer adapt the rules to be best for the top players? I assume the goal is to create a game that you lik...

Lytical wrote: ↑19 June 2026, 02:18 I dont know your skill level, but if you are not so confident, in extreme side of my point, if you draw credicor, buy no cards sp greenery and cities for 2 quick MS on tharsis can win you an easy 5p games. It works.

Would you do an exception to buy Standard Technology? Or any other card?

I'm glad that TM includes beginner corperations and the "standard" game. Otherwise my family may not have enjoyed their first games and it wouldn't have become one of our favourites. I also don't mind to play with beginner corperations once in a while, if it means that I can introduce a fr...

The linked rules PDFs (English by Mayfair, German by Goldsieber) contain a list with the amount of each tile

Then what will happen if the milestones and awards have a strong correlation like Terraformer(35TR) and Benefactor(highest TR) or Gardener(3 greenery) and Cultivator(most greenery)? I don't see the strong correlation. It's like a sprinter and a long distance runner. BTW in the expansion "Miles...