Gabriel Kitterman
United States
Silverton
Oregon
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I'm new to the game, so I might be missing something obvious. However, I don't understand why you would use the little break tiles. Wouldn't it be less fiddly to just put your card down on top of the break section of your sled board?
Why are there break tiles?
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Jeff Binning
United States
Rollinsville
Colorado
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When you need to re-shuffle the deck, you'll only leave behind the topmost left and right dog cards. All other cards, including those on the brake card, get shuffled. That's really the only time you need to use the brake tiles.
Edit: As Eric states below, technically the brake cards get discarded as they're used. We started placing them on the brake space because a few in my game group thought it was less fiddly than changing the brake tiles as needed. We always make sure those brake cards get included in the re-shuffle, though.
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Eric Franklin
United States
Everett
Washington
He sees you when you're sleeping; he knows when you're awake ...
He knows if you've been bad or good.
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Cards used for your brakes go immediately into your discard pile - if you use all of your cards in the draw pile, you reshuffle everything except for the current dog cards.
If you put a card on the brake, then you are (admittedly very slightly) changing the odds in your draw pile following a reshuffle.
And it looks better with the tiles.
Eric
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I've never found it fiddly enough to even think about an alternative! And as Eric says, it looks cooler this way anyhow.
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Tor Sverre Lund
Norway
Trondheim
Sør-Trøndelag
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Bobagabe wrote: I'm new to the game, so I might be missing something obvious. However, I don't understand why you would use the little break tiles. Wouldn't it be less fiddly to just put your card down on top of the break section of your sled board?
Why are there break tiles?
We've always used a card to show your break, and never bothered with the break tile (that just kept flying all over the place anyway). As others have mentioned, it's just a strict statistical imperfection to NOT use the break tile, but I really don't care :)
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United States
Norwood
Massachusetts
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Gawain wrote: Bobagabe wrote: I'm new to the game, so I might be missing something obvious. However, I don't understand why you would use the little break tiles. Wouldn't it be less fiddly to just put your card down on top of the break section of your sled board?
Why are there break tiles?
We've always used a card to show your break, and never bothered with the break tile (that just kept flying all over the place anyway).
How so? There is a cutout that keeps it in place. Perhaps you're using the game components wrong?
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Tor Sverre Lund
Norway
Trondheim
Sør-Trøndelag
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Or perhaps you're not aware of the first edition ;)
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United States
Norwood
Massachusetts
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Ah, that too!
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