Welcome @BGA!
I’ll take a swing at answering these 
Our core set games are designed to enjoy with 6 Blinks since we wanted there to be an easy point of entry. That said, the average user of Blinks has 12 Blinks in hand and soon the average user will approach 18 Blinks. A helpful statistic, more than 75% of our new backers purchased 18 Blinks or more. So while we encourage game play to be lots of fun with 12 Blinks, the direction is clear that there will be space for games that explore more Blinks.
You are in a special club but not alone, and when people are gathering again, you can remember that putting Blinks together allow groups of Blinks owners to play bigger and more complex games, so not too crazy.
There are some good techniques shared here in the forum such as this one.