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Why would you punish someone for kicking a player? And yes, a scenario where 'everyone gets a reward but the kicker' is indeed a punishment. This would end up in a stalemate, where a player leaves the game, never to come back, and everyone is sitting around, hoping someone else kicks them. I could m...

> Show me in the rules where it says you have to target the points leader with anything negative. Did you actually read my post? Or do you just like being condescending for no good reason? I'm talking about game strategy, and what motivates people. I specifically asked if it's common for people to &...

This has happened to me a few times now, both in the classic game and the new Vengeance: Someone was very high, like 191, and another player got a freeze card. Instead of freezing the guy about to go out, they froze ME instead. I was just a few points lower than they were. When I asked why in the wo...

Why is it so difficult to get people to play the full game? Every time I come here there are so many "special 6 rounds" or, even worse, "first 5/first 7" games. The first 5 rounds are essentially random luck. The real skill of Wizard is to take a lead over time and maintain it. W...

LOL now I finished another 2-player game, where the guy telegraphed his intent immediately and it was very easy to cut him off. He ended up (rage-)quitting the game.

Sorry folks, but it's all strategy. Don't telegraph your routes until you have the tickets to build them out.

It's absolutely part of the game, especially in 2 and 3 player games. The other day I played someone who built his route up from both coasts from the middle. All of my routes were vertical, which is a handicap anyway in this game, but they were concentrated in the middle. I didn't just "block f...

I routinely will sit at a table, and then suddenly be removed from it. I don't think I'm being kicked as my rep is 100% and the tables usually have similar ELO.

And in the chat window it says "<my username> has left the table" as if I did it.

Thanks for the info.

I've owned the 1910 expansion for 20 years and we've always played with longest route.

Is there a list of all the variations somewhere?

There's at least one variant that seems to not compute the longest route. It's a disappointment to spend the game getting a long connected route only to find out it didn't matter.

I've played games where I was convinced someone was going out of their way to block me. and not even going for any routes. Guess what? By the end of the game, they had connected everything into a concrete route, AND they won the game with the longest route and got all their tickets completed. We jus...