Hiking Boots/Shoes Recommendations?

Hiking boot recommendations?

Any recommendations for women's hiking shoes?

[Request] Hiking/outdoorsy style shoes that can handle lots of walking on concrete

Cold and wet weather hiking boots recommendations?

I am in need of a new pair of trail/hiking boots.

Hiking Boots for heavy use during the summer

Good pair of hiking shoes?

[Request] waterproof hiking shoes

[request] - Good quality walking shoes.

Hello Redditors. I'm in search of a classy yet extremely durable pair of hiking boots to take backpacking around the world for 12+ months with.

Hiking boots recommendations

Men's three season "urban hiker" (like Merrell MOAB but longer lasting)

BIFL Hiking boots for women

Hiking boots with good traction and can stand up to abuse.

Looking for a good pair of shoes for my weird feet

Request - Hiking Sandals

Request: Hiking Boots

Comfortable and cushiony shoes for walking on pavement 10KM/couple hours a day (UK)

Hiking sandals that last?

[Request] Powerful dishwasher with sanitize function?

I want the best god damned dishwasher money can buy.

Looking for the best, easiest to operate, cheapest dishwasher - Recommendation?

[Request] Best countertop dishwasher for reasonable price?

Can anyone recommend a good dishwasher?

Countertop/Portable Dishwasher

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Dishwasher for Second Home

My friend bought a house with this KichenAid dishwasher from 1974. He says it works better than any of the other ones he has owned. He just has to convince his wife not to replace it.

What's a good Panel ready dishwasher under $1k?

Best socket set on the market $100-$150

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Looking for a Mechanics tool set.

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A Starter/Lifetime Tool set

Basic screwdriver set needed

Mechanic Tools that are BIFL

Trying to fill a tool roll for my truck and would like input on BFL tools like wrenches, pliers, socket sets, etc.

BIFL: Mastercraft ratchet set with lifetime warranty. Got it at 14, im 31. Went thru more abuse than you think!

Looking to upgrade my home hand tools

Was told to post this here. Husky 270pc toolset from Home Depot for $99, normally $199. Lifetime warranty too

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compact/mid size suv

Midsize SUV

Recommendations for midsized SUVs to look at

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Midsize vehicle for three kids

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PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 
 Carcassonne is the perfect introduction to the modern world of board games. With its simple rules (place a tile, place a deeply, score points), should be part of everyone's collection. 

 SET CONTAINS: 
 

 * 72 x Land tiles
 * 12 x River tiles
 * 1 x scoreboard
 * 40 x followers in 5 colours
 * 5 x abbots in 5 colours
 * 1 x rulebook
 * 1 x supplementary sheet

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WHY DID I SELL: I remember reading a designer diary about Robinson Crusoe, where Ignacy Trzewiczek playtested with Vlaada Chvatil. Mr. Chvatil's advice was to "bin all the good events". While it was better than the original unpredictable 2:3 ratio, if there's never any breathing room in a game, book or TV show, it gets stifling

WHY DID I BUY: It was cited as being one of the heaviest games, and I wanted to test that. It also reminded me a bit of Terra Mystica, with the player power tiles.

WHY DID I SELL: The fifth or sixth time I moved some chits along with my donkey from one tile to another tile, I died a little inside. Too much micromanagement for my taste and not enough player interaction. Way too long for what it is. The art is fun though

WHY DID I SELL: Taste shifted to more interactive games, and my board game friends tended to prefer more speculative themes. Also, I suspect my parents were lying about Daisy being sent to a special farm for special cows.

Games I sold and why I sold them. What games have left your collection?

This game is way easier to start playing and enjoying vs something like Catan, where new players need a 45min rule reading pow-wow before you begin playing, then 10-20mins of setting the board up, and then 2-3 playthroughs for most before everyone is comfortable with the rules and starts to form ideas about strategy. You can explain basic Carcassone entirely in 10 minutes and begin playing with everyone getting the idea almost immediately, as well as the strategy after 1 playthrough. It's fun, easy, and less adversarial and contentious than many games.  Now here is where the issue lies

  Now for the fix: disregard the points being allocated at the end and nobody gets points for anything incomplete. Doing this takes the game from 1.5 stars to something approaching 4 stars, thus my rating of 3/5 overall. Of course modifying the rules of a game to make it better cheapens the experience, but it's an easy adjustment

 In my opinion this is a big mistake, because it takes away the entire element of strategy regarding what sorts of structures you should attempt to complete, deciding how ambitious you want to be in certain areas of the board based on how much time you have to complete them and the likelihood of getting certain pieces in that remaining time.  When you take that away, I'd say 60% of the strategy goes out the window, and it becomes this almost moot decision of where to put your piece each turn, with no consequences down the road for being overzealous. You still have to be observant enough to find the 3-4 spots you could realistically place your piece, and pick the best one for you that maximizes points. However, picking the best one is almost moot when the points for incomplete sections are the same for many features

 The problem (and thus the fix) is fairly simple: the rules regarding the end of game (when you run out of pieces) have everyone count up all the points for their partially complete structures and add them to their total points. Additionally, most of the point values are the same for sections of incomplete structures as their completed counterparts. In my opinion this is a big mistake, because it takes away the entire element of strategy regarding what sorts of structures you should attempt to complete, deciding how ambitious you want to be in certain areas of the board based on how much time you have to complete them and the likelihood of getting certain pieces in that remaining time.  When you take that away, I'd say 60% of the strategy goes out the window, and it becomes this almost moot decision of where to put your piece each turn, with no consequences down the road for being overzealous

Pretty good, but requires alteration of rules to qualify as strategy

For games when he has a hand of cards in his wooden tray, his opponent typically draws cards for him, and discards for him. He’ll say “third from the left, fourth from the right, middle, etc.”

So, basically, games with limited pieces are good. Games that require the player to keep a lot of detailed cards, tokens, other game pieces hidden from other players would be difficult because the opponent will have to use/discard them for him, creating a weird disadvantage.

 Someone flips a tile for him and he tells them where to place it. Ticket to ride is good because the cards aren’t super detailed with text on them that have to be repeatedly reread to remember what they do. He can just see that he has 4 red, 3 blue, etc. Plus, he doesn’t have the luxury of organizing his cards

Game suggestions for severe physical handicap

Not as addictive as Catan

  This is a “don’t be the last man standing” card game, it feels like a trick-taking game.  The fun catch is that everyone wins except the loser, but there are some very clever and interesting tactics to each hand.  This was a pleasant surprise, and plays in about 15 minutes, so we played it a ton.  Seems like it’d be awesome with a big group

**Calico – [4/10] ** -  Simple rules-wise, even elegant.  Draft 1 or 3 quilt tiles, and place it in your hex grid.  You get points for groups of colors, groups of patterns, or meeting certain pair-requirements.  For a quick drafty game, this one seemed to cause way too-much AP, and I didn’t find it particularly fun either

  This was that to a whole new level, it felt like a bunch of different minigames happening which had almost no impact on each other, with a fiddly and awkward dice selection mechanic which had us looking at the reference book constantly.  This felt like Tascini was trying to make a make Trajan, but captured the worst of both without the upside of either.  It took surprisingly long too for even a 3-player game.  Easily one of our least favorites for the whole group

  I can’t really even say why.  The highlight was absolutely the meeple that you have to launch off the seesaw and catch before placing him last.  **[Novelty Rating – 7/10] **

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 I am comparing it to the games that you overtake the people at any point and it's not clear who wins, 90% of the times, until the very last round. Overall, fun as a social activity, but not a wonderful one for board game lovers!

Which games use colors in the most confusing ways? Are there in any that differentiate effectively?

Great Expansion. Misprint. Shipping Damage.

 She lures you in with her serious looking components (hey, it doesn't look like Hungry Hungry Hippos or anything). You think, "ah this is going to be a really nice euro like El Grande, and I am going to enjoy strategizing and scheming to win for 90 minutes..

If I want negotiation, I would prefer Chinatown or Bohnanza. If I want economic action, I would take Caylus 1303, Powergrid, Viticulture or 100 other games over Catan.

In the gateway+ category, I would happily play **Samurai, Babylonia, Ra, Cuzco, El Grande, Iwari, Concordia** or **Hansa Teutonica** over Catan.

Sounds a bit strange, but I have over 100 games, and never played Catan in my life. Ever. Yet everyone promotes it like crazy. Maybe it has to do something how it was the Monopoly of the 90s/00s? (Might be wrong here). As a person who never played it, would you consider getting it still or are there better options for this category of games?

I've been burned before where I went on the hype train and got Carcassonne (after reading reviews  AND watching videos and everyone loved it) and didn't like it AT ALL.

Would you recommend Catan, or are there better games in the same category?

 I read the short instruction manual between games and by the second game we had everything figured out. Five player games are hectic. You only get to put down so many tiles, and your plans will constantly be affected by moves by other players. This was the most fun part, as every other turn devolved into half-shouted attempts at cutting backroom deals (we had been drinking)

 For a 5-player game, that meant a lot less of the wheeling-and-dealing and backstabbing I talked about above. It was difficult, though, to do our own thing with so few turns and tiles per player. I think I prefer it without the river tiles, but that may be a bug or a feature, depending on your perspective.

 You only get to put down so many tiles, and your plans will constantly be affected by moves by other players. This was the most fun part, as every other turn devolved into half-shouted attempts at cutting backroom deals (we had been drinking). This is in contrast to the two player game I played with my wife, where we mostly played our own way, occasionally trying to place a tile to thwart the other’s plans (which seems tough to do).  The replayability, I think, will be high

Fun for Five or for Two

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