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OCR: page32 of 50 ROTARY General The idea for Rotary came from Ploy. proprietary game (3M) in the seventies In this game the number of directi ions piece could ch noose from also determined its maximum range. This had two major drawbacks: first of all the limited and different ranges of the pieces did put strain on clarity simple look at the directions was not enough: one constantly had to check the different ranges. The second flaw was even worse. By increasing the range with the number of directions, the strong pieces became even stronger, theweak even weaker. Moreover there were only three pieces of pathetic weakness one step in one possible direction but six very strong pieces each able ao up three steps in three possible directions. Alth nough the little ones were compensated by their righ ...