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Players play those paddle cards, and they are numbered from 1 to 6. Well, if a player gets the gem for the last space before going over the falls, and the lowest card is a 1, and after all the players go, that means that lowest number is which way the river moves. Again, let's say the lowest card all players used was a 1. So, how could a person get that gem, and keep it without going over the falls? On top of that, it seems like you have to be really lucky to get the other gem just right before the falls too.
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Jon
United States
Vancouver
WA
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Two ways:
It can happen like you said but the river moves the other fork, not the one in where you're at.
Or you can arrive there after the river moves, then grab the jewel and leave at the beginning of your turn.
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Ben Lott
United States
Mason
Michigan
It's a gift...
...and a curse!
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quozl wrote: Two ways:
It can happen like you said but the river moves the other fork, not the one in where you're at.
Or you can arrive there after the river moves, then grab the jewel and leave at the beginning of your turn.
Yes. Part of the strategy is placing your boat higher up on the river counting on the river moving you towards the gems. You may not want to end your turn at the base of the river (very risky) but starting your turn there makes for an easy gem grab.
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United States
Danbury
Connecticut
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Blott wrote: quozl wrote: Two ways:
It can happen like you said but the river moves the other fork, not the one in where you're at.
Or you can arrive there after the river moves, then grab the jewel and leave at the beginning of your turn. Yes. Part of the strategy is placing your boat higher up on the river counting on the river moving you towards the gems. You may not want to end your turn at the base of the river (very risky) but starting your turn there makes for an easy gem grab.
Yeah, and this is much easier to arrange when you move *last* in a turn, because you know then exactly how far the river will move, so you can position yourself to ensure you're right next to the gems at the *start* of your next turn, then play your 6 and off you go.
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Blorb Plorbst
United States
Bloomington
Indiana
I think we're all bozos on this bus.
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cannoneer wrote: Blott wrote: quozl wrote: Two ways:
It can happen like you said but the river moves the other fork, not the one in where you're at.
Or you can arrive there after the river moves, then grab the jewel and leave at the beginning of your turn. Yes. Part of the strategy is placing your boat higher up on the river counting on the river moving you towards the gems. You may not want to end your turn at the base of the river (very risky) but starting your turn there makes for an easy gem grab. Yeah, and this is much easier to arrange when you move *last* in a turn, because you know then exactly how far the river will move, so you can position yourself to ensure you're right next to the gems at the *start* of your next turn, then play your 6 and off you go.
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United States
Danbury
Connecticut
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CrankyPants wrote:
Correct me if I misremember this but aren't all moves selected simultaneously? This doesn't give you quite as much leeway in what you can do but you can know how close to the falls you can get.
Moves are selected simultaneously but only revealed when you make your move. So the first person in the turn doesn't know what everyone else has selected yet, when they make their move.
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Dan C
United States
Florida
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If you're lucky enough to start your turn next to one of those spaces, grab one. Otherwise don't end your turn there... too risky most of the time. You don't have to have those gems to win anyways.
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Austria
Graz
Ka-ching!
Wah?
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Also note that the river always alternated between the two forks.
This is even mentioned in the rules, so if a disks is stuck in the middle, you need to push it down the opposite fork than in the round before.
This allows you to predict when you would go down the falls on the last space and when not.
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