General Contests

[Jason Waddell]

We did a contest once. Do you guys have ideas for future contests?

 

[Diakonov]

Best Homelands Cube in Design

 

[Alfonzo Bonzo]

Best 'new' theme or archetype

 

[Tyrole]

I'd like to see what a best 2-player cube variants contest could generate. I've had a lot of fun with microsealed, but there have to be other good ideas out there too.

 

[Diakonov]

I'd like to see what a best 2-player cube variants contest could generate. I've had a lot of fun with microsealed, but there have to be other good ideas out there too.

I'd like to see this as well. I need more ways to cube if we don't get enough players. Here's an untested version I came up with about six months ago:

Make a stack of 140 cards. Deal 7 cards face down to each player. Both players look at their 7 and choose a card to keep, then shuffle the remaining 6 and randomly discard a card from it face down. Both players hand each other the 5 cards that are left, choose one of the 5 to keep, then randomly discard another face down. Both players hand each other the remaining 3 cards, choose one to keep, and discard face down the remaining 2. Repeat with new packs of 7 until all are gone.

This way, you receive a lot of options while still having interaction with your opponent. If you fail to wheel a second card from a pack, it will be unknown whether your opponent took that card or whether it was randomly discarded (66% chance that it was discarded).

Edit: Now that I'm finally looking at this again, I'm realizing that it doesn't really matter all that much whether or not discard happens after the first pick in each pack. It's probably better to discard two cards after your second pick.

 

[Chris Taylor]

I'd like to see this as well. I need more ways to cube if we don't get enough players. Here's an untested version I came up with about six months ago:

Make a stack of 140 cards. Deal 7 cards face down to each player. Both players look at their 7 and choose a card to keep, then shuffle the remaining 6 and randomly discard a card from it face down. Both players hand each other the 5 cards that are left, choose one of the 5 to keep, then randomly discard another face down. Both players hand each other the remaining 3 cards, choose one to keep, and discard face down the remaining 2. Repeat with new packs of 7 until all are gone.

This way, you receive a lot of options while still having interaction with your opponent. If you fail to wheel a second card from a pack, it will be unknown whether your opponent took that card or whether it was randomly discarded (66% chance that it was discarded).

Edit: Now that I'm finally looking at this again, I'm realizing that it doesn't really matter all that much whether or not discard happens after the first pick in each pack. It's probably better to discard two cards after your second pick.

So it's the mulligan cube?

Idea: Would a themed battle box competition be horrible?

 

[Goldenpineapple]

Here's an untested version I came up with about six months ago:

I totally tested it like three times, your thread just kind of went away afterwards though.

Cube contests are hard because the lists are all so different, yo.

 

[Diakonov]

I totally tested it like three times, your thread just kind of went away afterwards though.

I forgot I posted that here! I thought I had only posted it on salvation. Thanks again for the feedback and taking the time to try it out.

Do you think it would have been improved if only one card is discarded instead of two? So it would be:

Pick from 7, pass
Pick from 6, discard ONE card, pass
Pick from remaining 4, discard last 3

This would make the signals a bit stronger and would hopefully cause less discard frustration.