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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 directions piece could choose 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 weakn ness one step in one possible direction but six very strong pieces each able to qo an to three steps in three possible directions. Alth nough the 'little ones were compensated by their ...