Can I put together 2 sets of these cards to prolong the game? My concern is that I'll end up with duplicated cards. Will the game be less fun?
249025
I wouldn't think that it would be an issue, only thing is you may not always get two items that match but given the amount of items on each card that might be a rarity. I reckon give it a go, if all else fails you have a back-up pack of card that you can take on holidays!!!
249026
I'm sorry, I can't offer any suggestion. My little guy is only 2, was born with cleft pallet so basically we use this to encourage speech in naming the animals. We haven't actually used them to play the game as described.
249027
I actually think it would not work to combine two decks. In the single deck each pair of cards has one matching picture, if you combined two decks, you may have matches for all pictures. It would completely change the game. It may also give one player a huge advantage over others depending on the cards. Seems like you would be better off just starting a new game if you want to play longer.
249028
I would think you could. Each hand is different every time, and there are several versions of the game. Our children are also very young and we didn't play the more complex games.
1591479
I had 360 unique cards in my pack. Duplicates were pretty uneven, got 43 of the same card, 37 of another, and few others in the high 20s. I ended up with about 215 cards that were duplicates beyond the 4th (generally useless unless you are too lazy to swap out cards to another deck when needed). Whether or not the cards were being hand sorted to have a max of 4 duplicates in the past or not doesn't matter, it appears that its not the case now.
29120
The jokers are not used. The game does not specify whether or not to use both decks, so I think you can do whatever you prefer. We use one deck for 2 players and both decks if there are more than 2. Using more cards just makes the rounds last a little longer. I agree, the directions are not the best!
2000757
There are more options, after you have played the game a few times you might remember some of the cards. adding the expansions just adds to the quality of the game.
9537
I purchased the core set and then built up with the expansions. I found it gave a little more flexibility and depth to the play. If I recall correctly, there's a fair amount of redundancy with the cards in the core set. You can certainly get by with just one core set for starters, though, if you just want to try it out.
679652
They will be different to an extent, there are only so many different cards in the set and the box will contain a rather large portion of the possible cards. Two boxes would mean a fair few duplicates (at least for the commons and some of the rares).
689239
It is always possible. One of the last extension have a team rules: When someone grab 2 cards, he has to keep one card for himself and put the other one in a shared stack of cards to be used by your team.
1475990
Nope! This version serves as a base set (victory cards and treasure cards), so it will work in place of the original if you're using an expansion
1621986
I'd say more older sets because there are more of those than new, but you usually get a decent amount of new ones. I think someone messed up with the last one I got because it was half gate crash (woo!). If you're looking for new cards look at your local shops for bundles or just buy boosters
1559857
LCG's are superior to CCGs because you get the maximum copies of all the new cards by buying the Force Packs. Pretty awesome. The only thing you'll have to buy multiples of is the core set box if you want 2 copies of all the objective sets. Great game. Highly recommended.
1379377
Probably not. I didn't get a single one. FYI, I got a vast number of duplicates (more than 100 copies of two cards) from this vendor and when I wrote to their customer service people they dismissed me rudely. I'd recommend someone else unless you're content with only getting 400-500 cards worth of usefulness.
1125185
We only used them once with a big group of people and no one noticed if the cards were duplicates. It was not an issue for us. Love the bingp set.
642598
It's a total crap shoot, you may get lucky and complete the set with missing cards but depending on the randomness of card mixing & packaging, you may get a tremendous amount of duplicates and fall short of completing base set. I have often bought 2-3 boxes to get complete sets of base cards only. The defensive rocks, star player cards are put into packs at much less quantities, so you will not compete those categories by buying just 1 more box. Hope that helps.
2070542
Most of the cards would be okay, but you may need to take out two or three sets. My daughter who plays it, said it might be a bit difficult but doable.
76404
I know that there are card sleeves that fit fairly well. I opted not to use card sleeves as using them makes it a bit more difficult to shuffle and adds substantial bulk. I know this sounds silly but if you have the money I would purchase one set for play and one to keep in mint condition. Also, you can get the base Dominion game cards without buying the entire game (also on Amazon). Happy playing!
644723
It's meant to be a duel. Think of it like chess, but with bugs. You could try to play with more if you had other sets, I suppose.
1387128
I would get the starting game as well, the reason being that after you play a deck for so long you start to know all of the cards. The expansions are only a small fraction of the real game, so you will likely reach that point faster. I would recommend getting as many cards as possible so that you are never running out of things or seeing certain cards too many times. Makes the games more creative as well!