Lenga's colors_tcg Game Metagame Guide

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Low Complexity Games
Games that can be completed simply by commenting on a post without any need to look up other media or reference your own card post.

Booster Bundle

Slots

Most Wanted

No Context Theater

Combo Breaker

Pick a Color

Colorseum

Utility Games
Games that provide choice cards or reward activity in Colors TCG.
Switch It Up
Coloring Book
Little Spell Academia
Book of Cards
An Idol's Acrostic Trading Post
Pot of Gold
Riku's Favors

Swap Station

Release Roulette - this game is included because of its high card yield. If "doubling down" with 10 cards spent, the absolute minimum net gain is 30 cards, and there is a decent chance for more.

Medium Complexity Games - Cards
Games that reference Colors TCG. Usually pretty simple.
Deck Lover
Crazy Colors
Twenty Questions
Go Fish
Silly Blanks

Medium Complexity Games - Text & Image
These games usually require using a search engine to identify an image or text from a series.
Costume Party
Pokeradar
Scramble
Shadow Watching
Directions - inactive

Medium Complexity Games - Audio
These games involve listening to an audio clip.
Seiyuu Guess
Ibuki's Songs - inactive
Hi-5 Radio

High Complexity Games
These games involve interactive games or puzzles.
Colors Concentration
Reading Between The Lines - inactive
Quilting

Puzzle Chains

Memory Lane - NOTE: Technically this game is variable.

Crosswords - inactive

Double Game Rewards Coupon Metagame
It's important context that through Shopping Street (approximately November) and Shopping Street Lite (approximately April), a player is guaranteed at least 10 uses of the "double game rewards for five games" coupon per year (henceforth 2G coupon for short). Furthermore, it is quite likely there will be at least one 2G coupon from Pot of Gold over the course of the year. Thus, one can comfortably use a coupon on every Pot of Gold round. I would say that because Pot of Gold rewards at least 10 crayons, 5 uses of double game rewards for a total of 50 crayons is superior to virtually every other commonly offered Pot of Gold prize (such as +1 crayon for 10 levels) other than perhaps donation coupons depending on one's priorities.

Don't be intimidated when it comes to enough activity for Pot of Gold. From January 2024 through the present, the maximum number of games required for Pot of Gold has been 20, and the median has been 10. There are about 20 rounds per month of low complexity games and 25 rounds per month of utility games, so these goals can easily be met.

If there are 15 uses of a 2G coupon over the course of 12 months, then what should the other uses be?

Combo Breaker is a common choice, as 128 additional cards will be awarded for a 7-hit combo. However, if one is waiting several weeks for no-hit rounds to finish one's combo, then it may be possible to predict that a new Shopping Street 2G coupon will be available by then.

I tend to keep at least one use in reserve in case of a sudden unusual game round with extra large rewards. Seiyuu Guess 100-game anniversaries, for instance, such as a 700th round on April 8th, 2025.

Finally, besides Pot of Gold, An Idol's Acrostic Trading Post is the most frequently recurring game that is a good candidate, with crayons included in rewards as well. However, there is variance in Acrostic monthly prize rewards. I would recommend only using the card during a month with 75 cards or more.