Thanks! I actually find that the vertical strategy is even more effective in 2 -player, with some adaptations. It's important, however, that there are the 7&3-cost 5-pointers or the 7-cost 4-pointers are available at the Blue level in the initial card set, since there isn't as much turnover from other players buying cards. In my games, I'm frequently the target of defensive play by all the other players, who take coins from the piles I need to prevent me from going up to the next card even if I have it reserved in my hand, and most players hold more than one coin, so the reduction in players normally makes the vertical strategy easier for me, even with the smaller coin pool. That said, there are some adjustments that I make when playing just two players. -Since it's just the two of you, defense is easier to make worthwhile and easier to keep track of. Know what they're up to, and if you can get a really good block go for it. The best scenario is where you can see what card they are going for, and the chips they have can't buy any of the other cards in the set. One block of this type is typically decisive, since it can set the opponent back two or three turns. -Use yellow-chips more frequently to make up for the coin pool, since they are not changed by the reduction in players. If a 7-cost 4-point card is your target, you could have a ladder like this: buy two green-level cards in that color, get two coins of the color you're going for, and 3 yellow coins. To open up space in my hand to get the vertical yellows I need, sometimes I'll reserve the green level cards with yellow coins, but then buy them without spending the yellow coins. That way, after you buy the two green-level cards and the 4-pointer, you'll have an empty hand and be ready to go again. -In my experience, two-player games have less turns overall than multi-player games, and so the guild strategy almost never has time to take shape, because it just requires too many buys to get going. I frequently end games with 8-9 cards total in two-player games (sometimes as few as 5-6 total cards, with three blue cards and one or two points from the green or yellow levels) and would recommend avoiding the guilds. Finally, the initial card set is more important in two-player games since less turnover occurs. Because of this, the one-and-one strategy from the foundations video (kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pZaKmb2jtsmZZYk.html) is a good option because it responds to the actual choices you have, rather than counting on the cards you need to come up as buys are made. Good luck and have fun!

@@Klanosk3 u explain it so detail, u very good at this game