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- From: kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.abstract
- Subject: Re: Recommend these game, from Game Top 100?
- Message-ID: <kleber.725217242@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 17:14:02 GMT
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- ninja@halcyon.com (Jonathan Roy) writes:
-
- > Terrace - looks and sounds cool. I really like Abalone, and this
- > seems very similar. Anyone play it? :D
-
- This one didn't impress me-- it has Abalone's elegant look, until you
- actually touch the pieces, and the game itself isn't helped much by the
- board and pieces-- would work almost as well with graph paper and a pencil.
- Definitely know what's in the box before buying.
-
- > Octiles - Looks neat, but far to expensive... No matter how good it
- > is, I'd have to play it first.
- >
- > Quintillions - In the list for 7 years. Based on Pentominoes from
- > Clarke's book. Isn't there an actuly "Pentominoes" game? If so, is
- > this better? Either way, how fun IS this game??
-
- Come to the Maryland Renaissance Festival! Kadon enterprizes (which is
- a group of really neat people, from talking to them at the RenFest) has
- a booth there where, in addition to selling games, they let you play them
- all for a casino fee ($.50-$1). Octiles really is cute, especially
- 4-player games, and the game just *feels* nice, in addition to everything
- else. These are also the people who make the gorgeous laser-cut wooden
- pentominoes, and accompanying 3-d versions, and a matching hexominoes
- set (2-d and 3-d). They'll do a 7's set on order, but it gets awfully
- expensive, though the 2-d plastic verison of the 7's is reasonable.
- (I asked about special-ordering a 4-dimensional pentominoes set
- (pop quiz: how many 4-d pentominoes are there?), and she said she'd do it
- for me if I provided the sets of 5 hypercubes to make them out of.)
-
- Incidentally, these people are also very sensitive to the "purity of
- abstract games" concept; for example, in octiles, the set of tiles isn't
- arbitrary, it's one each of all possible types (up to rotation, of course).
-
- Hmm-- and looking back, no, really, I *don't* have any official connection
- with these people; I just like them...
-
- --Michael Kleber I don't have an overactive imagination...
- kleber@husc.harvard.edu I have an underactive reality... --EG
-