While the X/Y scoring is very clear (saying 2 to 6 points helped) I wanted to verify the scoring on the X/X resource.

If I had ten water resources and four food resources and wanted to maximize my points would I get:

14 total off all

10 only get all of one type

7 total of all 'pairs'

5 total of one ype of resource 'pair'

We play 10 in the above but wanted to verify from one of the designers or other folks.

Thanks!

Chiron said:

You are correct. You can only discard resources of one type with X/X. So 10 is the most points you could score in the scenario you describe, 2 is the minimum (since you must discard at least 2 like cards.)

Your opponents are not required to discard the same resource as you, but each player must only discard one type of resource. This is contrasted by X/Y where you may only discard one card of any type, but may discard as many types as possible to maximize scoring.