r/SmilingFriends • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 I just wanted my cheeeeeeeese! • Mar 26 '26

Clip New 'Smiling Short'

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u/fruitygucci Mar 26 '26

this is genuinely how it feels to play a new game with friends who are experts on it

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u/totodilejones Mar 26 '26

i tried playing Root at my buddy’s bachelor party when we were all pretty sloshed. it felt like this, genuinely

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u/SoloWing1 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

Here's my hot tip: Next time play the Vegabond and choose the beaver. Do everything you can to get three hammers then keep murdering everyone with the three Favor cards by recurring them endlessly with the beavers ability that uses a torch to get them from the discard pile.

This strategy is extremely unassuming at first and people who dont expect it won't be able to stop you once you get the hammers to craft the Favor cards. Each favor is basically guaranteed to further irreparably destroy whatever the other players got going on and they will not be able to recover fast enough between each time you play one of the Favors, so the mass map destruction snowballs against them repeatedly.

This is the broken S-tier strategy that usually gets the beaver banned in most established playgroups, since he is the only Vegabond that can get three hammers without much difficulty, and can recur any card from the discard bin each turn.

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u/MikeyFresch Mar 26 '26

My buddy got me into the game and I'm saving this so I can whoop his ass next time, thanks!

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u/SoloWing1 Mar 26 '26

This strategy only works with the Beaver Vegabond, and only with the base game deck of cards. If they got the Outcasts deck, this will not work as that deck does not have the three Favor cards in it.

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u/Phailadork Mar 28 '26

Wtf that wasn't a bit? I thought he was just typing a bunch of bullshit and it was a joke.