I thought some of you might be interested in this:
This is the 3rd time I participated in the quizz.
My first year was a "carnage", (I made a lot of sometimes silly mistakes). It was a real bad wake up call that these questions seem so innocent but are brutally difficult.
So I made a promise to myself to learn from my mistakes and to never make the same mistakes again.
So each year I refine my strategy for the next year.
Here is my strategy for 2024 which already includes the lessons learned from this year’s mistakes:1) look at every tile and every meeple/figure individually and write down everything I see:
- which expansion?
- inns, vineyards, pig herds, group of travelers, pigsy, little highwaymen, ...
- what kind of different meeples are there? Normal meeples, mayor, …
In some cases (Grinch questions) I even print the game-situation so that I can make checkmarks on the impression.
2) open simultaneously the WICA page for EVERY expansion involved in the question (even if I am SURE that I know the rules!!) and read every WICA page from A to Z including ALL the footnotes (Meepledrone mostly takes edge cases which are only mentioned in the footnotes!!). Complete my notes under 1) by writing down the particularities of each expansion in combination with the elements already noted under 1)
3) read my notes from the previous year’s quizzes and what I did wrong.
4) with all this knowledge: write the answers to the questions, if necessary go back and forth between WICA pages or even consult rules explanations in the CarcC Forum (this might be necessary for recent published expansions - like The Drawbridges this year)
5) go to WICA Reference Guides (Tools) and select the appropriate Scoring Guide (During your turn / after the game) and cross-check my results
6) go back to my initial list of notes 1) and check if I included every detail in my answer
7) send my answer to Meepledrone
8 ) re-check my answers for all questions a few days before the final deadline for submission and send a correction if necessary
9) after the results are published, make notes of what I did wrong so that I will not do it again
* Number 6 is new from this year (would have prevented at least 1 mistake)
* Number 5 was there before but I did not use it very often this year which is a pity because I am sure it would have prevented one or two mistakes
* Number 8 was there from the beginning but frankly, I never took the time to re-check everything. Every year it’s the same: I am too lazy after Christmas …
But even all this is no guarantee to get it right
Some questions are so wildly complicated that my brain gets confused and here even WICA does not help.....
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February 06, 2016, 11:15:42 AM