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Today's spreadsheet crime: One of my #gamedesign students was using Excel to estimate how good different starting locations are on a Catan board, and showed me a cool trick for plotting hex tiles in a chart, so I just had to try making my own version. 🤓

25/4/26, 6:30 pm2 reposts14 likes

Spencer Harrill

@spencer-h.bsky.social

25 Apr

I remember doing this project! Fun times

Douglas

@dmgregory.ca

25 Apr

And it really randomizes - both tile and chits! 🤓 (Here I'm following the standard spiral chit placement, skipping the desert)

𝔏𝔲𝔠𝔞𝔰 ℜ𝔦𝔷𝔬𝔩𝔦

@lucasrizoli.com

30 Apr

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Bryan Alexander@edufuturist.bsky.social

This is one way of thinking about Catan strategies. I admit to liking the roads approach, although I rarely pull it off in practice; www.wargamer.com/catan/fan-si...

wargamer.comBoard game fan simulated 36,000 games of Catan and discovered roads are OPWhat can we learn from 36,000 simulated games of the Catan board game? Build roads, and build them long!

Douglas

@dmgregory.ca

30 Apr

Yeah, that checks out.