2026-06-02T16:39:26Z
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Well, I’ve tended to call it “huge deck games”, which I regard as a problem because of clustering. If 10% of the deck has tag A, and 10% has tag B, and I need both of them to do The Thing, having a large deck means there will be games where tag B simply never comes up.
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This started happening with TFM. Or was there an older game?
RFTG had this problem with Expansion Arc 1 but RFTG was so far back that there’s little connection in the design evolution
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I am legit sad that I can no longer use the term “Turbo CBTB” at the game store I no longer work at. It would bring me such glee.
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I think clustering happened accidentally in some earlier big games (e.g. Steampunk Rally with the expansion) but TFM was the first one I was aware of to make it a point that you will not get through this whole deck even before the expansions come along.
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I think that’s why I never really enjoyed TFM. I only played it on the app, but the sheer lack of combos that I was experiencing game after game just turned me off it.
Everdell somewhat has this problem, but mitigates it a bit by having a lot of things work with the suits of the cards, not just single cards (though there is still plenty of the latter). Though there are enough copies of each card in the deck, that you are still likely to come across what you need at least once. Whether or not you are the person to get the card is another issue entirely.
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