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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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#506990
Times are a little boring these days, so if you need something to do, how about predicting some randomness?

I just bought a box of Premiere WB Beta off eBay because it was cheap ($19.95 including shipping) and, like a lot of us I think, I miss opening packs. As you might remember, Premiere came with 36 packs per box. So I'm inviting you to, as the title implies, predict my rares.

You can make up to 36 guesses of Rare cards from Premiere (you can repeat if you think the packs will) and whoever gets the most correct wins... nothing whatsoever. If you'd like, you can also make some random prediction about the pack besides the Rares as a tiebreaker.

Good luck. The box is scheduled to arrive by Monday, assuming there are no delays in shipping.
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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
 - Delta Quadrant
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#507029
I'll guess right now that at least one pack has a duplicate in it. (i.e. 2 of the same common card in the same back.)

6 will be rare missions that you only know are rare because of their placement in the pack.

01.Interphase Generator
02.Cytherians
03.Sarjenka
04.Goddess of Empathy
05.Supernova
06.Warp Core Breach
07.Crosis
08.Honor Challenge
09.Wormhole Negotiations
10.Beverly Crusher
11.Dr. La Forge
12.K'Ehleyr
13.Leah Brahms
14.Neela Daren
15.Reginald Barclay
16.Ro Laren
17.Shelby
18.William T. Riker
19.Gowron
20.Kargan
21.Kurak
22.Alidar Jarok
23.Tomalak
24.Toreth
25.U.S.S. Enterprise
26.U.S.S. Hood
27.I.K.C. Buruk
28.I.K.C. Qu'Vat
29.Khazara
30.Pi
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By Daimyoshi (Richard Steele)
 - Beta Quadrant
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#507061
Iron Prime wrote:I'll guess right now that at least one pack has a duplicate in it. (i.e. 2 of the same common card in the same back.)

6 will be rare missions that you only know are rare because of their placement in the pack.

01.Interphase Generator
02.Cytherians
03.Sarjenka
04.Goddess of Empathy
05.Supernova
06.Warp Core Breach
07.Crosis
08.Honor Challenge
09.Wormhole Negotiations
10.Beverly Crusher
11.Dr. La Forge
12.K'Ehleyr
13.Leah Brahms
14.Neela Daren
15.Reginald Barclay
16.Ro Laren
17.Shelby
18.William T. Riker
19.Gowron
20.Kargan
21.Kurak
22.Alidar Jarok
23.Tomalak
24.Toreth
25.U.S.S. Enterprise
26.U.S.S. Hood
27.I.K.C. Buruk
28.I.K.C. Qu'Vat
29.Khazara
30.Pi
You need Six more
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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
 - Delta Quadrant
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#507088
Daimyoshi wrote: You need Six more
Iron Prime wrote:6 will be rare missions that you only know are rare because of their placement in the pack.
Arguably a 'cheat', but I phrased it that way on purpose because of how frustrating rare missions can be...
(there are 29, just counted)
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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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#507094
I actually do still need 3 rare missions from Premiere in order to have a non silver border version of them. And since I'm a little paranoid about trading (mainly I don't want someone yelling at me that my card wasn't Mint only Near Mint or somesuch), maybe this will help me get one of them.

That, possibility of extras of Bridge Crew and such and just opening packs were worth just under 56 cents per pack for me. :)
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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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#507259
BTW, in a case like IP's guess, he can earn up to 30 points, with the 6 rare missions and duplicate commons in a pack counting as tiebreaker predictions.

If someone really wanted to, they could simply guess, say, Worf, and score 1 point if he's in the box or 0 points if not.
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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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#507482
Turns out my Premiere box made good time through the mail and is out for delivery today. So if you wanted to enter this pointless contest, at least say something now and I can wait while you come up with an entry.

Otherwise, I'll post results when the mail comes in and Iron Prime will be the winner by default.
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By Iron Prime (Dan Van Kampen)
 - Delta Quadrant
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#507487
I knew what that clip was before clicking and it still made me really happy. :cheersL:
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By eberlems
 - Chief Programmer
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Explorer
2E European Continental Quarter-Finalist 2023
2E  National Second Runner-Up 2023
#507489
1 Wind Dancer
1 Warp Core Breach
1 Varon-T Disruptor
1 U.S.S. Yamato
1 U.S.S. Phoenix
1 Tox Uthat
1 Satelk
1 Sarthong Plunder
1 Lursa
2 Lore's Fingernail
1 Lore Returns
1 Kurn
1 Kurlan Naiskos
3 Kahless
1 K'Ehleyr
1 Jean-Luc Picard
1 Jaglom Shrek - Information Broker
1 Investigate Time Continuum
2 Investigate Rogue Comet
1 Investigate Massacre
1 Investigate Alien Probe
1 Investigate "Shattered Space"
1 Honor Challenge
1 Haakona
1 Goddess of Empathy
1 Evaluate Terraforming
1 Devoras
1 Crystalline Entity
1 Bynars Weapon Enhancement
1 Borg Ship
1 Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease
1 Alien Groupie

tried lackey pack creator and filtered for rares
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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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Retired Moderator
#507492
eberlems wrote:
1 Wind Dancer
1 Warp Core Breach
1 Varon-T Disruptor
1 U.S.S. Yamato
1 U.S.S. Phoenix
1 Tox Uthat
1 Satelk
1 Sarthong Plunder
1 Lursa

2 Lore's Fingernail
1 Lore Returns
1 Kurn
1 Kurlan Naiskos

3 Kahless
1 K'Ehleyr
1 Jean-Luc Picard
1 Jaglom Shrek - Information Broker
1 Investigate Time Continuum

2 Investigate Rogue Comet
1 Investigate Massacre
1 Investigate Alien Probe
1 Investigate "Shattered Space"
1 Honor Challenge
1 Haakona
1 Goddess of Empathy
1 Evaluate Terraforming
1 Devoras
1 Crystalline Entity
1 Bynars Weapon Enhancement
1 Borg Ship
1 Barclay's Protomorphosis Disease
1 Alien Groupie

tried lackey pack creator and filtered for rares
This would make me quite angry if I actually needed things from this box. ;)
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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
 - Gamma Quadrant
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#507513
A couple of random observations:

1. Armus, I'm going to assume you meant Avert Disaster, as Avert Danger is a 2PG mission.

2. All three contestants thus far have predicted that I will get Goddess of Empathy and Honor Challenge.
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By Armus (Brian Sykes)
 - The Center of the Galaxy
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#507515
Boffo97 wrote:A couple of random observations:

1. Armus, I'm going to assume you meant Avert Disaster, as Avert Danger is a 2PG mission.

2. All three contestants thus far have predicted that I will get Goddess of Empathy and Honor Challenge.
Yeah I was going from memory. I meant the Rare Fed A-mission in Premiere. So Avert Disaster
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By Boffo97 (Dave Hines)
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#507519
Armus wrote:Yeah I was going from memory. I meant the Rare Fed A-mission in Premiere. So Avert Disaster
All the various mission titles start blurring for me after a while too. ;)
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