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The cards are interesting, they include a card to force shuffle the deck in order to make sure there is some randomness in the outcomes.

Even with the forced shuffle cards, the outcomes fall too much in the bell curve and make the game feel sterile. Because if you get a flood of 5’s and 6’s you know a drought is soon upon you.

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Well, get creative and find some middle ground. Maybe add a rule that player that has no cards on hand and gets no resources in this turn can reshuffle.

I include a bag of assorted dice in my Catan set

My two house rules are:

1. 2 dice are pulled from the bag at random. If dice are too similar for the Cities and Knights expansion, pull another die.

2. First 7 is re-rolled until not a 7. I have found this can speed up the early phase of the game.

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