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The 5 Hows: Ticket to Ride

Nov

9

2022

This is a guide for how to play the game Ticket to Ride.

1. How do I win?
By having the most points at the end of the game

2. How do I get points?
By making train routes. Just playing a train route gets you some points, but connecting routes to destinations gets you more points.

3. How do I make a train route?
Each route is marked on the board by colors. When you have enough cards of that color, you spend the cards needed for that route (one card per train car) and then you get to put your train tokens on that route.

4. How do I get train cards?
Each turn, you can do one of 3 things: draw train cards, play a train route, or draw more route cards. Question 3 went over how to play a train route. For how to get train cards, just draw them from the pile. You can draw from the 5 face-up cards or from the face-down pile. Normally you draw 2 cards, but if you draw a face-up wild card you get only 1.

5. How do the route cards work?
At the beginning of the game, you draw some starting train cards and also some starting route cards. Those are your goals. Actually they’re called destination cards because the game doesn’t care what route you take to connect the cities. If you can play your trains to connect a route, you get the points on that route card. If, at the end of the game, you didn’t fulfill that route then the points are subtracted from your total. If, during the game, you’ve made all your routes then you can take additional routes.

Note: this is for the USA edition of TTR. They have other maps, so you could buy TTR with routes in Europe or Asia or such. Some of those have other features such as tunnels or mountain passes that have additional rules.

There, now go play Ticket to Ride.

Now then, come make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to put riders on them!

2 Kings 18:23

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PSALM 10

Nov

2

2022

Now it is time for another PSALM.

Gamma made this one, like last time. This one was titled “Surprising Fishing” by him.

Now only 140 more to go.

In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the needy;
Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.

Psalm 10:2

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The 5 Hows: Fluxx

Oct

5

2022

This is a guide for how to play the game Fluxx.

1. How do I win?
By being the first person to meet the goal.

2. How do I meet the goal?
By playing Keeper cards that match what’s shown on the Goal card.

3. How do I play a Keeper card?
Each turn, you draw a card and play a card. Well, that’s not exactly true – that’s how the game starts, but it changes.

4. How does it change?
You can play different types of cards. There are Goal cards (you can change the goal) and Keeper cards (that are for attaining the goal) and there are also Rule cards, that change the rules of the game like how many cards you draw and how many you play.

5. Wait, how can I win the game if someone can change the goal? How does that even make sense?
That’s what makes Fluxx different – some people think it’s more fun, and some people think it’s less fun. Yes, the goal changes, the rules change, someone can just take the cards in your hand, etc. That’s why it’s called Fluxx.

It’s not a difficult game to learn, but it can be difficult to play because you have to always re-learn the rules (when they change). Also, there are a variety of versions. We have the original Fluxx (which is fun) and Chemistry Fluxx (which is even more fun). They have even more versions, which we haven’t tried, but might be worth it depending on your interests.

There, now go play Fluxx.

being a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

James 1:8

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Drew Careymore

Sep

28

2022

So this one didn’t turn out as well as I was hoping , but I’ll show it to you anyway. I thought it would be fun to combine Drew Carey and Drew Barrymore and see what the result would be – of course named Drew Caremore.

First up – starting with Drew Carey and adding some Drew Barrymore, mainly her hair and lips.

image of Drew Carey and Drew Barrymore combined

Not the best combination, but just wait.

We now start with Drew Barrymore and add in some Drew Carey.

image of Drew Carey and Drew Barrymore combined

But why just his glasses?

Here, I’ll show you her picture with his lips, and you’ll see why it just doesn’t work.

image of Drew Carey and Drew Barrymore combined

And there’s no point putting his hair on her – by the time you put Drew Carey’s glasses, mouth, and hair on anyone you just have another Drew Carey.

And the child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. And she named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.

Exodus 2:10

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The 5 Hows: Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

Sep

7

2022

This is a guide for how to play the game Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza.

1. How do I win?
By running out of cards first.

2. How do I get get rid of my cards?
Everyone gets rid of cards. The key is not to win any of them back.

3. Ok, then how do I win cards back?
By messing up your actions.

4. What are my actions?
Ahem, this is the Five Hows, no Whats are allowed.

4. Ok then, how are my actions?
That’s not a very good question, but I’ll answer what I think you meant. You make your actions based on the card being played versus the word being said.

Each person, in turn, flips the top card off his deck and into the middle pile. And when you do so, you say the next word in the sequence “taco cat goat cheese pizza”.

If the picture on the card matches the word you just said, everyone needs to put their hands on the middle pile. The last person to put his hand in is the loser (kind of like musical chairs), and gets all the cards in the pile.

5. But you said actions plural. How are there other actions?
There are a few cards other than taco, cat, goat, cheese, and pizza. There are some other animals, and you must make the prescribed (in the rules) motions to match that animal. If you don’t, then you also get all the cards in the middle.

It’s a simple concept but very stressful. And fun. And just as much fun to watch as to play.

There, now go play Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza.

and He will put the sheep on His right, but the goats on the left.

Matthew 25:33

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The 5 Hows: Guillotine

Jul

20

2022

This is a guide for how to play the game Guillotine. I normally like to link to the official game website, but in this case I could not find a publisher that admits to owning the game, so the best I could do is the rules.

image of Guillotine game

1. How do I win?
By having the most points at the end of 3 rounds.

2. How do I get points?
By collecting Noble cards with point values.

3. How do I collect Noble cards?
Each turn, you collect a Noble at the front of the line of Noble cards.

4. How do I work a strategy into that, if all I’m doing is getting a card in turn?
You have Action cards that let you rearrange the order of the Noble cards, or get extra points based on which types of Noble cards you have.

5. How do I get Action cards?
Each turn, after you take your Noble card, you just automatically draw an Action card from the deck. Plus you start with a few Action cards, but no Nobles.

It is a simple game, really. A smidgen of strategy, but more luck of the cards, so you can just play the game. But it is still fun.

Now when they had come into the house, as he was lying on his bed in his bedroom, they struck him and killed him, and they beheaded him. And they took his head and traveled by way of the Arabah all night.

2 Samuel 4:7

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PSALM 9

Apr

6

2022

Now it is time for another PSALM.

Gamma made this one, like last time. This one was titled “Bike Jumping” by him.

Now only 141 more to go.

Sing praises to the Lord, who dwells in Zion;
Declare His deeds among the peoples.

Psalm 9:11

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