Trash Talk :: Topic: What BOARD GAME(s) have you been playing? (293/322)

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Most of my games of INNOVATION have been two player. What I've observed and read online is that two player games rarely get into the higher numbered decks; most of our 2P games usually emptying up to deck 5-6, with some occasional pulls out of the later decks. Of the three Chudyk games ( along with GLORY TO ROME and IMPULSE ) INNOVATION is probably the most chaotic. All three share the trait that the cards allow a player to bend or break the rules basically, which for newbs can be hard to grasp. Each player is trying to build an engine of sorts that breaks the game the hardest. In teaching the game you have to be like Morpheus - "What you must learn is that these rules are no different that the rules of a computer system. Some of them can be bent. Others can be broken. " A player can gain the upper hand quite early over his opponent(s) if he amasses a majority in a certain icon that allows the execution of dogmas that can't be shared. We only play dogmas the other player can match as a last resort usually. A player can also gain an early Achievement if the cards fall correctly . Most games seem to have one player gain an early lead and rarely lose it; but there are occasional come from behind victories as well. Sometimes a player will get an engine going using low value cards, but then be stuck there and unable to graduate to higher value cards ( and thus unable to claim a Dominant card from said higher pile ) ; a clever player will return low value cards to the draw pile so the opponent "stalls" on the low decks. We played with two expansions at once ( pre KS version ) Echoes was one of them IIRC. I think the base game by itself has a ton of replay value, given the fact that each of the 100 cards are unique, the fact that one of them is held out as a scoring card, and the order they appear.
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