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Mar. 8th, 2003 01:02 pmThe Coin Chase: "All of the other existing 1933 Double Eagles -- the 445,034 coins held in the Mint vault and the 435 in the cashier's vault -- were, according to the records of the Philadelphia Mint, melted down between February 6 and March 18, 1937. But on February 15, 1937, a Philadelphia jeweler named Israel Switt sold a 1933 Double Eagle to Philadelphia coin dealer James MacAllister."
A problem that some people have with Settlers of Catan is the statistical scatter. You produce resources based on the roll of a pair of six-sided dice; but if your numbers never get rolled, you get hosed. One suggested solution is a "dice deck:" thirty-six cards with the appropriate distribution of numbers from 2-12. The problem here is that if, say, the 12 comes up early on, you know for a fact that it's not coming up again until you've run through the deck, and can plan accordingly. Apparently, Die Siedler von Nurnberg has a couple of "shuffle the deck" cards included in the deck. Which is a cool idea, and might work to placate those who hate the dice. (All hail the Settlers Dice, warpers of probability and statistics.)
Traded my three D&D books for hardbacks of A Song of Ice and Fire yesterday (oh, and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
beracjade, Storm of Swords is finally out in mass-market paperback) and a couple other books I'd been meaning to pick up. Including the reprint of Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (which doesn't include the song credits at the end; must ask the Dragaera list about that). Also, the two new Hip Pocket Games from Cheapass came in yesterday. So that was cool.
And Discussion will be had Tuesday night. And life goes on.
A problem that some people have with Settlers of Catan is the statistical scatter. You produce resources based on the roll of a pair of six-sided dice; but if your numbers never get rolled, you get hosed. One suggested solution is a "dice deck:" thirty-six cards with the appropriate distribution of numbers from 2-12. The problem here is that if, say, the 12 comes up early on, you know for a fact that it's not coming up again until you've run through the deck, and can plan accordingly. Apparently, Die Siedler von Nurnberg has a couple of "shuffle the deck" cards included in the deck. Which is a cool idea, and might work to placate those who hate the dice. (All hail the Settlers Dice, warpers of probability and statistics.)
Traded my three D&D books for hardbacks of A Song of Ice and Fire yesterday (oh, and
beracjade, Storm of Swords is finally out in mass-market paperback) and a couple other books I'd been meaning to pick up. Including the reprint of Cowboy Feng's Space Bar and Grille (which doesn't include the song credits at the end; must ask the Dragaera list about that). Also, the two new Hip Pocket Games from Cheapass came in yesterday. So that was cool.And Discussion will be had Tuesday night. And life goes on.