Pieces of Wednesday
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magidI was listening to WBUR on the drive home, and one of the sponsors had a tag line that included the phrase "executive squash and fitness." I was left trying to figure out what an executive squash is...
I played two new games at the Mostly Looney Game Night.
Aquarcassonne is really new, since it's still being play-tested, a cross between Aquarius and Carcassonne, using an Aquarius deck and six Icehouse pieces/player. There were some finer details that we had to decide, and it all seemed to work. I think this is the first territory-claiming game that has seemed reasonably easy on the first try (ok, I won, but it wasn't only that; I could see strategies more easily in this, possibly because there was such a limited number of things that could be done). Per haps it will help me with other games of that sort.
Martian Chess is merely new-to-me. It's a piece-taking game, like chess, but pieces are 'yours' if they're in your territory, not based on color. It took a while until this started to sink in: I found m yself plotting moves based on how things would work if the pieces hadn't changed allegiances between moves, more like traditional chess (though there were four players). I'd like to play again, see if I can better wrap my brain around it.
There were some excellent quotes floating up from gaming situations last night. One table was playing concurrent games of Chrononauts and Zendo, so I heard "If Hitler had the Buddha nature..."
The game Tree, Leaf, and Thorn (or something like that; correction?) has pla cement of root squares at the beginning. Very mathematical-sounding. "Is the root square of -1 an exclamation point?"
We interrupt this regularly-scheduled post with a news flash for local shoppers: the Garment District is having a 50%-off sale this weekend (Friday-Sunday).
It is tricky seeing around some of the walls of snow when turning into traffic; some are over 5 feet high. I am not happy with how far out I have to get to see if I can merge.
Whoever drives MA plate FAITH must have quite a lot of it, considering how zie cut in front of me this morning...
[Mostly written earlier (8.50 am), but due to LJ being down... Great frustration.]
I played two new games at the Mostly Looney Game Night.
Aquarcassonne is really new, since it's still being play-tested, a cross between Aquarius and Carcassonne, using an Aquarius deck and six Icehouse pieces/player. There were some finer details that we had to decide, and it all seemed to work. I think this is the first territory-claiming game that has seemed reasonably easy on the first try (ok, I won, but it wasn't only that; I could see strategies more easily in this, possibly because there was such a limited number of things that could be done). Per haps it will help me with other games of that sort.
Martian Chess is merely new-to-me. It's a piece-taking game, like chess, but pieces are 'yours' if they're in your territory, not based on color. It took a while until this started to sink in: I found m yself plotting moves based on how things would work if the pieces hadn't changed allegiances between moves, more like traditional chess (though there were four players). I'd like to play again, see if I can better wrap my brain around it.
There were some excellent quotes floating up from gaming situations last night. One table was playing concurrent games of Chrononauts and Zendo, so I heard "If Hitler had the Buddha nature..."
The game Tree, Leaf, and Thorn (or something like that; correction?) has pla cement of root squares at the beginning. Very mathematical-sounding. "Is the root square of -1 an exclamation point?"
We interrupt this regularly-scheduled post with a news flash for local shoppers: the Garment District is having a 50%-off sale this weekend (Friday-Sunday).
It is tricky seeing around some of the walls of snow when turning into traffic; some are over 5 feet high. I am not happy with how far out I have to get to see if I can merge.
Whoever drives MA plate FAITH must have quite a lot of it, considering how zie cut in front of me this morning...
[Mostly written earlier (8.50 am), but due to LJ being down... Great frustration.]
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Date: 2003-02-20 08:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-02-20 08:37 am (UTC)What or where is a Barsoom?
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Date: 2003-02-20 09:16 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2003-02-20 10:06 am (UTC)I wonder if there's any particular reason he chose that.
Does it mean that Martians call themselves Barsoomians? Sounds like some strange sort of marsupial to me (or possibly some weirdo product from that Japanese shopping game Queue was mentioning).
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Date: 2003-02-20 05:19 pm (UTC)Phooey!
-a, who either won't have shopping time, or won't be in town, Friday-Sunday.
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Date: 2003-02-21 05:26 am (UTC)Ä
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Date: 2003-02-20 05:31 pm (UTC)Damn. I completely spaced out and forgot about MLGN (I was planning to go as usual). :-(