How to Not Suck at Taking Your Turn

Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss the finer points of taking one's turn in another installment of our long running series: How to Not Suck. It turns out there are ten simple things one must do to take one's turn in a timely fashion.
- Ask rules questions immediately
- Pay attention to the game
- Consider moves when it's not your turn
- Recognize when a decision is arbitrary
- Recognize when a decision is effectively arbitrary due to your own lack of processing ability
- Develop directional heuristics
- If in doubt, maximize the simplest available positional heuristic
- Use pattern recognition to develop heuristics
- Learn mechanical skills (e.g., shuffling cards)
- Develop a gaming lexicon
