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Catan Strategy

Author : Mark Oxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781709494178
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (941 download)

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Download or read book Catan Strategy written by Mark Oxer and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Change how you think about Catan, your opponents, and level up your play! If you want to learn the intricacies of the game and tactics implemented by the top players in the world, then this book is for you. Author Mark Oxer is a board gaming enthusiast and has been competing in Catan tournaments at the local, regional, national and international level for over 15 years. During his time competing Mark has: Won the Catan Canadian Championships Won the Catan Masters Championship and holds a 5th All-Time Master Ranking Competed in many other Catan events, some of which include: Catan World Championships Guinness World Records Event: Most people playing Catan simultaneously Mind Sports Olympiad Digital Catan World Championship In this book, Mark goes beyond anything previously written and uses real stories to illustrate tactics, and ultimately provides a complete guide to the game of Catan. This book will be a reference piece that you will pull off the shelf more than once. It will inspire you to study the game, your opponents, and your own level of play. This is not just a book of rules, scenarios, and statistics, but a book written to change the way you think about Catan.

How to profit by one’s enemies

Author : Plutarch
Publisher : GOODmood
ISBN 13 : 8862776497
Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book How to profit by one’s enemies written by Plutarch and published by GOODmood. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who among us does not have rivals? Plutarch writes about it as easily as only great communicators do, and explains how to treat those who are not on our side. In "De capienda former inimicis utilitate": "How to profit by one’s enemies," the great philosopher introduces his thought with irony but also with overwhelming logic, revealing an infallible system for winning in a confrontation with one’s enemies. Rules conceived long ago, but which are relevant more than ever. A great help to improve our relationships with others.

The Everything Tabletop Games Book

Author : Bebo
Publisher : Everything
ISBN 13 : 1507210620
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Everything Tabletop Games Book written by Bebo and published by Everything. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tabletop and board games aren’t just for rainy days or awkward family events anymore. As the game industry grows, people of all ages are jumping to play “the original social network.” In our ever-increasing technological world, playing old-school games is a welcome retreat from the overexposure to Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and the rest of social media. Over the past few years, board games have become the hot new hobby. Instead of friends sitting around the same table and staring at their phones, they are now either working with or against each other. Millions upon millions of new fans have begun to join their friends in real life for a fun game of Pandemic, 7 Wonders, or Ticket to Ride. The Everything Tabletop Games Book shows how to play some of the best tabletop games in the world, from classic strategy games like Settlers of Catan to great new games like Gloomhaven. Throughout the book, you’ll learn the different genres of tabletop and board games; how to play each game; rules and strategies to help you win; and even where to play online—including new expansions to keep your favorite games fresh and exciting. So gather up some friends, pick a game from this book, and start playing! You’ll be having a blast in no time.

Secrets of Shuffleboard Strategy

Author : Omero C. Catan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of Shuffleboard Strategy written by Omero C. Catan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catan Puzzle Book

Author : Richard Wolfrik Galland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781787393905
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Catan Puzzle Book written by Richard Wolfrik Galland and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Catan Puzzle Bookis the perfect gift for fans of the Catan franchise who want to expand beyond the wildly popular board game experience. The timeless world of Catan is waiting for you to explore, build, settle... and solve! Inside the Catan Puzzle Bookare 100 original puzzles based on the wildly popular board game, providing a narrative adventure that allows you to discover the unsettled island of Catan. Alongside original artworks from Settlers of Catan, each puzzle contains its own pleasures and solving them allows you to win resources. Resources lead to victory points... and victory points lead to success! Contents: This book includes 10 chapters of puzzles, each containing 10 puzzles set in the Catan world. The puzzles may be solved on their own or as part of a narrative that runs through the book. Each correctly answered puzzle awards the reader resources, which can eventually be converted into achievements and victory points. Upon earning enough victory points, the reader wins the book! Catan Puzzle Bookis also fantastically illustrated throughout with more than 150 in-world artworks.

The Settlers of Catan

Author : Rebecca Gablé
Publisher : Amazon Crossing
ISBN 13 : 9781611090819
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Settlers of Catan written by Rebecca Gablé and published by Amazon Crossing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A historical novel based on the board game 'The Settlers of Catan.'"

It's All a Game

Author : Tristan Donovan
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250082730
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book It's All a Game written by Tristan Donovan and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[A] timely book...It’s All a Game provides a wonderfully entertaining trip around the board, through 4,000 years of game history."—The Wall Street Journal Board games have been with us longer than even the written word. But what is it about this pastime that continues to captivate us well into the age of smartphones and instant gratification? In It’s All a Game, British journalist and renowned games expert Tristan Donovan opens the box on the incredible and often surprising history and psychology of board games. He traces the evolution of the game across cultures, time periods, and continents, from the paranoid Chicago toy genius behind classics like Operation and Mouse Trap, to the role of Monopoly in helping prisoners of war escape the Nazis, and even the scientific use of board games today to teach artificial intelligence how to reason and how to win. With these compelling stories and characters, Donovan ultimately reveals why board games--from chess to Monopoly to Settlers of Catan, and more--have captured hearts and minds all over the world for generations.

Play Hive Like a Champion: Strategy, Tactics and Commentary

Author : Randy Ingersoll
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1300260009
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Play Hive Like a Champion: Strategy, Tactics and Commentary written by Randy Ingersoll and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-10-03 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ”> SPECIAL FEATURE: Foreword written by John Yianni, designer of Hive. Hive is a fun, simple, award winning, abstract board game based around an insect theme. Using over 300 illustrations taken from more than 100 actual games, this book demonstrates strategy and tactics (both elementary and advanced) that will surely turn you into a Hive Master! Written by Randy Ingersoll, the 2011 Online Hive Champion, this book covers tactics ranging from elementary ones like 'The Pin' and 'The Cover' to more complex ones like 'The Hop Around' and 'The Two Beetle Attack.' Read this book and your Hive playing skills will no doubt improve.

Catan

Author : Philip Lee
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476652481
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Catan written by Philip Lee and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2024-07-11 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catan (formerly Settlers of Catan), the most popular and iconic of the Eurogames that have swept the world since the 1990s, has sold more than 35 million copies in 40 different languages. For the first time ever, Catan's mechanics and strategies are detailed in basic language and straightforward illustrations, for everyone from first-time gamers to tournament players. Section I introduces the rules to the game, including those that are commonly disputed among players. Section II covers the mechanics of the game and discusses concepts like the Gaussian curve, production, power hexes vs. power intersections, inherent value vs. trade value, actual cost vs. opportunity cost, and total production value (TPV). Section III, the largest, is dedicated to advanced considerations to improve players' games. These include tactics and strategy; the three pillars of Catan (points, potential and power); assessing one's position during gameplay; hoarding; burst-building; roads; settlements, cities, and their placement; harbors and trading, with helpful tips about player-to-player and maritime trades and a ranking of the 2:1 harbors; use of development cards; early game strategy; and middle- and endgame theory. Section IV offers helpful, commonsense tips for players, including how to remain calm, talk at the table, and to play hardcore Catan. Section V discusses expansions, scenarios and alternate rules; supercards; and the fatal flaw of 2-player Catan.

The Book of Carcassonne

Author : Steve Dee
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Carcassonne written by Steve Dee and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-04-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Note from the author - PLEASE DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK YET, IT IS STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS. PLEASE GIVE US A FEW WEEKS.STEVE

Avidly Reads Board Games

Author : Eric Thurm
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479815829
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Avidly Reads Board Games written by Eric Thurm and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avidly Reads is a series of short books about how culture makes us feel. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Blackwood and Sarah Mesle, Avidly—an online magazine supported by the Los Angeles Review of Books—specializes in short-form critical essays devoted to thinking and feeling. Avidly Reads is an exciting new series featuring books that are part memoir, part cultural criticism, each bringing to life the author’s emotional relationship to a cultural artifact or experience. Avidly Reads invites us to explore the surprising pleasures and obstacles of everyday life. Writer and critic Eric Thurm digs deep into his own experience as a board game enthusiast to explore the emotional and social rules that games create and reveal, telling a series of stories about a pastime that is also about relationships. From the outdated gender roles in Life and Mystery Date to the cutthroat, capitalist priorities of Monopoly and its socialist counterpart, Class Struggle, Thurm thinks through his ongoing rivalries with his siblings and ponders the ways games both upset and enforce hierarchies and relationships—from the familial to the geopolitical. Like sitting down at the table for family game night, Board Games is an engaging book of twists and turns, trivia, and nostalgia.

Eurogames

Author : Stewart Woods
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786467975
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Eurogames written by Stewart Woods and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-08-30 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While board games can appear almost primitive in the digital age, eurogames--also known as German-style board games--have increased in popularity nearly concurrently with the rise of video games. Eurogames have simple rules and short playing times and emphasize strategy over luck and conflict. This book examines the form of eurogames, the hobbyist culture that surrounds them, and the way that hobbyists experience the play of such games. It chronicles the evolution of tabletop hobby gaming and explores why hobbyists play them, how players balance competitive play with the demands of an intimate social gathering, and to what extent the social context of the game encounter shapes the playing experience. Combining history, cultural studies, leisure studies, ludology, and play theory, this innovative work highlights a popular alternative trend in the gaming community.

How to Win Games and Beat People

Author : Tom Whipple
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062443720
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book How to Win Games and Beat People written by Tom Whipple and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destroy the competition on game night with this seriously funny guide packed with handy strategy, tricks, and tips from the experts Games are way more fun to play when you win—especially when you crush your friends and family! In How to Win Games and Beat People, Times science editor Tom Whipple explores inside tips, strategy, and advice from a ridiculously overqualified array of experts that will help you dominate the competition when playing a wide range of classic games—from Hangman to Risk to Trivial Pursuit and more. A mathematician explains how to approach Connect 4; a racecar driver guides you through the corners in slot car racing; a mime shares trade secrets for performing the best Charades; a Scrabble champion reveals his secret strategies; and a game theorist teaches you to become a real estate magnate, recommending the Monopoly properties to acquire that will bankrupt and embarrass your opponents (sorry, Mom and Dad). Funny, smart, and endlessly useful, this is a must-read for anyone who takes games too seriously, and the bible for sore losers everywhere.

Seven Games: A Human History

Author : Oliver Roeder
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 1324003782
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Seven Games: A Human History written by Oliver Roeder and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group biography of seven enduring and beloved games, and the story of why—and how—we play them. Checkers, backgammon, chess, and Go. Poker, Scrabble, and bridge. These seven games, ancient and modern, fascinate millions of people worldwide. In Seven Games, Oliver Roeder charts their origins and historical importance, the delightful arcana of their rules, and the ways their design makes them pleasurable. Roeder introduces thrilling competitors, such as evangelical minister Marion Tinsley, who across forty years lost only three games of checkers; Shusai, the Master, the last Go champion of imperial Japan, defending tradition against “modern rationalism”; and an IBM engineer who created a backgammon program so capable at self-learning that NASA used it on the space shuttle. He delves into the history and lore of each game: backgammon boards in ancient Egypt, the Indian origins of chess, how certain shells from a particular beach in Japan make the finest white Go stones. Beyond the cultural and personal stories, Roeder explores why games, seemingly trivial pastimes, speak so deeply to the human soul. He introduces an early philosopher of games, the aptly named Bernard Suits, and visits an Oxford cosmologist who has perfected a computer that can effectively play bridge, a game as complicated as human language itself. Throughout, Roeder tells the compelling story of how humans, pursuing scientific glory and competitive advantage, have invented AI programs better than any human player, and what that means for the games—and for us. Funny, fascinating, and profound, Seven Games is a story of obsession, psychology, history, and how play makes us human.

Tales of Impossibility

Author : David S. Richeson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691218722
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Impossibility written by David S. Richeson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive look at four of the most famous problems in mathematics Tales of Impossibility recounts the intriguing story of the renowned problems of antiquity, four of the most famous and studied questions in the history of mathematics. First posed by the ancient Greeks, these compass and straightedge problems—squaring the circle, trisecting an angle, doubling the cube, and inscribing regular polygons in a circle—have served as ever-present muses for mathematicians for more than two millennia. David Richeson follows the trail of these problems to show that ultimately their proofs—which demonstrated the impossibility of solving them using only a compass and straightedge—depended on and resulted in the growth of mathematics. Richeson investigates how celebrated luminaries, including Euclid, Archimedes, Viète, Descartes, Newton, and Gauss, labored to understand these problems and how many major mathematical discoveries were related to their explorations. Although the problems were based in geometry, their resolutions were not, and had to wait until the nineteenth century, when mathematicians had developed the theory of real and complex numbers, analytic geometry, algebra, and calculus. Pierre Wantzel, a little-known mathematician, and Ferdinand von Lindemann, through his work on pi, finally determined the problems were impossible to solve. Along the way, Richeson provides entertaining anecdotes connected to the problems, such as how the Indiana state legislature passed a bill setting an incorrect value for pi and how Leonardo da Vinci made elegant contributions in his own study of these problems. Taking readers from the classical period to the present, Tales of Impossibility chronicles how four unsolvable problems have captivated mathematical thinking for centuries.

Kobold Guide to Board Game Design

Author : Mike Selinker
Publisher : Open Design LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781936781041
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Kobold Guide to Board Game Design written by Mike Selinker and published by Open Design LLC. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Origins Award Pull up a chair and see how the world's top game designers roll. You want your games to be many things: Creative. Innovative. Playable. Fun. If you're a designer, add "published" to that list. The "Kobold Guide to Board Game Design" gives you an insider's view on how to make a game that people will want to play again and again. Author Mike Selinker (Betrayal at House on the Hill) has invited some of the world's most talented and experienced game designers to share their secrets on game conception, design, development, and presentation. In these pages, you'll learn about storyboarding, balancing, prototyping, and playtesting from the best in the business.

Euler's Gem

Author : David S. Richeson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691191999
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Euler's Gem written by David S. Richeson and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a simple equation reshaped mathematics Leonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects—from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller’s buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler’s theorem is so simple it can be explained to a child. From ancient Greek geometry to today’s cutting-edge research, Euler’s Gem celebrates the discovery of Euler’s beloved polyhedron formula and its far-reaching impact on topology, the study of shapes. Using wonderful examples and numerous illustrations, David Richeson presents this mathematical idea’s many elegant and unexpected applications, such as showing why there is always some windless spot on earth, how to measure the acreage of a tree farm by counting trees, and how many crayons are needed to color any map. Filled with a who’s who of brilliant mathematicians who questioned, refined, and contributed to a remarkable theorem’s development, Euler’s Gem will fascinate every mathematics enthusiast. This paperback edition contains a new preface by the author.