LordSnubbington: Psst, dude. U want the sauce? Show me your meat.

potatolimerance: The hoisin sauce used to be a rare. I still hang onto it in hopes that age will increase its value. Most people assume I only hang onto it for sentimental reasons.
Chadomancer: When you're a boy scout, card collector, and foodie all in one
Soxfan196o: And this mustard is shiny numbered to 100
sdugicus: sorry, the only thing I'm in the market for is some PSA 90 Horsey Sauce
drumset04: Still need the holographic Dijon ketchup
Stickmunt: They say I'm crazy. But one day, one day I'll retire off this collection
CheGuevara: "Yeah I arrange them by Scoville count" (SoCal Accent)
N00B1N4T0R: damn it, I got mustard in my sleeve again

MathEquals5: I'll trade your hoisin sauce for my sweet and sour if you toss in that buffalo sauce I know you have but never bring to school.

Zanthia: This wasn't what he imagined being sucked off meant. - 7 pts
N00B1N4T0R: When I said my favourite song was "put your head on my shoulders", I didn't mean it literally! - 3 pts
Soxfan196o: Head... Shoulders, Knees, and Toes - 3 pts
TrueTurtle: "Mmm, love a Dullahottie" - 1 pt

Antic the Fearless: When she said she wanted to get ahead in life, he wasn't expecting it to be his. - 16 pts

The_Dancing_Viagra: "not what I thought she meant by giving head" - 10 pts
LordSnubbington: My body can't keep up at this rate! - 3 pts
amoebalady: I *knew* it! She only loves me for my mind!!! - 11 pts

Not Me Yet: The Headless Horseman gets a girlfriend - 4 pts

Chadomancer: It was at this exact moment, the kiss he had been waiting for ever since he met her, that Craig realized he had left the oven on. - 2 pts

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Game Review: Cardbury

Planning a city is hard, building a place to fit the needs of a community takes forethought and resources, then once it's done you have to keep the dang thing from falling on itself. Many games have been made to simulate the activity and management of these things, from the family all the way to a civilization.

Cardbury isn't asking for much, just that you build four buildings with your cards, but getting there is in no way as simple as Klondike. The goal is to build a skyline of four ascending stacks of cards in four different suits in an exact 5-4-3-2 shape, with other things getting in the way of achieving this.

A move consists of drawing two cards and playing a card onto a foundation. You lose if your draw deck runs out, but your time is more limited than that. If upon drawing you have three or more cards of a suit you discard that into a pile; if you make six of these piles or run your hand out you lose. If instead you have one card of each suit and some extras, you make another pile from discarding your draw deck and if this one reaches 13 cards it's also game over.

You must play a card even if it means removing played cards to make way, this means you can only do so on one building per turn. Cards discarded this way do not affect your progress. An empty hand after playing a card onto a stack does not end the game for you if you can draw without running the deck out.

Gameplay is really a reaction to what happens beforehand, with foresight of what you don't want to lose next draw. Every incident costs cards for your stacks, but how you start a stack will also affect your play, best not to need to lose too many cards rebuilding. Only being able to play one card at a time your hand will build up in a way that will cost you time and important cards, so you better start counting.

Deceptively simple, Cardbury efficiently squeezes resource-management gaming into a small game.

sYdney rebik: ?????????????? - 1 pt

SirStabsaLot: ???? ?? ??? now at dairy prince. find us at ???? - 5 pts
potatolimerance: The whole mall is a bot - 0 pts

Chadomancer: "The Riddler's delve into marketing as a side gig did not go as well as he'd hoped." - 15 pts

Funrmunt: boutta reveal the secrets of the universe for an ice cream - 1 pt

Ms Platypus: Want Some ??? Here ?????? Is! - 1 pt

LordSnubbington: confusing cream - taste your dementia - 18 pts

TrueTurtle: 

Similar to ads designed to be seen differently from different heights, McDonalds has designed a world first:

Ads directed at those with brainfreeze. - 2 pts

Antic the Fearless: The menu signs at the CIA McDonalds are strictly need-to-know. - 13 pts, 5 vts

Soxfan196o: how many questions? - 0 pts

N00B1N4T0R: "when you want ice cream but end up questioning your entire existence" - 13 pts, 6 vts

Zanthia: McDonalds announce the McNick Young Confused Cone. - 3 pts

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Crimbopalooza 2024 Results

 

Game Review: Voleur

Poker cribbage. Not the most accurate way to describe Voleur, but you are forgiven for thinking it looks like it. It's mechanistically a last-trick-only piquet but with scoring based on poker-like hands.

Two players are dealt six cards and discards two each. Then a card is placed face-up for trump. Eldest hand leads and players must follow suit, if they can't they must trump otherwise may play any card, highest trump card or card of suit led wins the trick. Tricks aren't collected and are placed before the players. 

The winner of the last trick wins the value of his hand. You only score for one combination of cards but you can replace a card with the trump indicator to make a better combination. A basic combination scores while a special combination steals the points from your opponent (scores can't go lower than zero). First to 40 points wins. Unusually the deal continues with the remainder of the deck until it runs out, only then is the whole deck reshuffled.

Cribbage comparisons are thin, but strategy in discarding (albeit less consequential) and skillful card play remain. Should you discard for a high-scoring hand or a likely winner? After all, a high-value hand is nothing if it can't win even a trick.

Playing to win the last trick requires an approach different from simply winning a majority of them. Most last-trick games are luck-heavy and this is no different, the four tricks offset by only having two players.

A fine mix of games resulting in its own thing, though it does need to raise its stakes some more.

Game Review: Digging Graves

An interesting find in the 2024 traditional deck contest, a vying game with an unusual mechanic. In Digging Graves you bet on having the highest single card in your hand. Players ante, cards are dealt, then two betting rounds where betting consists of discarding a card first then staking. Highest card wins, ties broken by suit so the pot is never split. Whenever you discard a spade you are given another card.

How can you make a single card showdown interesting? The same way poker did: having more cards available for each player. Unlike most forms of poker in this game hand sizes can get uneven though having more cards isn't doesn't matter in the showdown. More cards does mean more bluffing power in the betting, so do the discards you make.

Discards are open information so you can do even more bluffing with what you discard, not just using it to get rid of low cards. The adding up of information for each round doesn't take a lot from betting, remember that the cards do not lie but the player can.

If you need a quick betting game for dealer's choice, this one works great for three rounds of betting.

A couple of variations are given, one is by comparing pairs and the other is where if you discard a spade you must keep discarding until your discard is no longer a spade. These give way different approaches to betting.