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- From: nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith)
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- Subject: Re: Game of pentominos
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.221410.1753@ll.mit.edu>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:14:10 GMT
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- In article <BzF56E.7wE@csugrad.cs.vt.edu> dbush@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (David Bush) writes:
- >nates@ll.mit.edu ( Nate Smith) writes:
- >
- >>a LONG time ago, i was given a game called "Pan-Kai". this is a
- >
- >Oh, yeah? Very interesting. Back in the late sixties Parker Brothers came out
- >with "Universe," a pentomino game for 2-4 players. The rules were similar. For
- >2 players, the board is 10x10. In addition, there are four regions of
- >25 cells each appended to the 4 sides of the main square. The entire
- >board has 4-way rotational symmetry. For 3 players, use any two extra regions
- >in addition to the 10x10 grid. 4 players use the whole board. On your move,you
- >may not place a pentomino so as to "fence off" a region of < 5 cells connected
- >horizontally and/or vertically. (Ofcourse only the active portion of the board
-
- i forgot that rule! it was in the earlier Pan-Kai as well.
-
- >is considered.) If you have no move, you're out of the game.
- >The last player to move wins.
- >
- >Trivia: the game box contained publicity stills from "2001:A Space Odyssey."
- >One shot shows an astronaut playing Hal a game of something that looks like
- >Universe. Apparently that scene never made it to the movie. :)
-
- yes - i remember seeing that come out. it was an upgrade to Pan-Kai, which
- was also Parker Bros., but earlier. there was a screen image of pentominoes
- in "2001", but it wasnt being played by anyone, just in the background along
- with other flashing lights & panels...hard to pick up, cawz its panned past
- rather quickly....
-
- - nate
-