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- From: dkfenger@kate.UVic.CA (David Fenger)
- Subject: Re: Recommend these game, from Game Top 100?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.013105.29409@sol.UVic.CA>
- Summary: Terrace isn't so bad...
- Keywords: Terrace
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- Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
- References: <1992Dec24.060053.5044@nwnexus.WA.COM> <kleber.725217242@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 92 01:31:05 GMT
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- kleber@husc11.harvard.edu (Gwydden) writes:
- >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.
-
- Well, I got the game as a Christmas present, and while the construction is
- mid-grade, it's not all _that_ bad... Yes, the stones are hollow plastic,
- but solid enough.
-
- I don't think it would work well as a graph paper and pencil game - too much
- moving around. (Graph paper and various bits of paper, perhaps.) The rules
- are very simple, yet the consequences of the rules seem to be quite complex,
- from the games I've played so far.
-
- Admittedly, I've not played a lot of abstract games lately - but if Othello
- and chess fit in here, Terrace should, too.
-
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- David Fenger (dkfenger@sirius.uvic.ca)
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