Re: [piecepack] new game -- Worm Derby

["Tim Schutz" <hexchex@...>]

Quick Edit
We didn't start placing tiles at the starting gate. We started a few tiles out from the starting gate and finished a few tiles from the turning pylon.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tim Schutz 
  To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:00 AM
  Subject: Re: [piecepack] new game -- Worm Derby


  Mark
      I played with my daughters last night and they enjoyed the game a lot and we even came up with another variant, the slalom. We took  2 complete sets of colored tiles and placed them  suit side down starting at the starting gate and going to the turn pylon. We placed them pretty much in a straight line with at least on tile worth of space between them. Once all the tiles were down we flipped them over. Red you had to go to the right of the tile and blue you had to go left. 

      P.S. I did catch my younger daughter trying to cheat. When she placed down the coins in her worm she would try and leave a small gap in between to make the snake move a little farther on each move. 

  Tim Schutz

    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: mark_biggar 
    To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com 
    Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:26 AM
    Subject: [piecepack] new game -- Worm Derby


    Here is a weird little game I've invented of racing worms.
    Please try it out and let me know what who think

    Piecepack game -- Worm Derby

    2-4 players

    The object of the game is to race your worm through a field of 
    obstacles around a distant pylon and back to the start line 
    before any if the other player's worms.

    Worms

    A worm consists of a connected string of touching (at the edge) 
    piecepack disks of the same suit.  A worm always has two end 
    disks that only touch one other disk in the worm and may have one 
    or more body disks that touch exactly two other disks.  Worms may 
    never form loops or branching structures.  A worm can be curved 
    in any way allowed by the above description.

    In the basic rules all worms are six disks long; the advanced 
    rules allow for worms of lengths from 2 to 6 long.

    Worm Movement

    A worm moves in steps.  Each step consists of picking up the 
    disk at one end of the worm and moving it to touch the disk 
    at the other end of the worm.  A worm can move in either 
    direction, but is a worm is moving multiple steps in one turn 
    it must move all in the same direction (all the steps must take 
    disks from the same end of the worm).

    Obstacles

    Facedown Piecepack tiles are obstacles that worms must go 
    around as they race.  Worms cannot go over obstacles and an 
    obstacle can never be placed on top of a worm.  If there is 
    not enough room between two obstacles for a worm's disk to fit, 
    the worm cannot go between the two obstacles.  Worms also treat 
    other worms like obstacles.

    Game setup

    Give each player the six disks form one suit form his worm.  
    It is convenient to place the correspondingly colored pawn 
    in front of each player so that it is easy to tell which worm 
    belongs to each player (there is no other use of the pawns in 
    this game).  Also give each player the corresponding colored die.

    Place two tiles, suit side up, about 4 tile widths apart to 
    form the start/finish line.  Place another tile, suit side up, 
    three to six feet away along the perpendicular bisector of the 
    start line as the turn pylon for the other end of the racecourse.  
    The distance you choose will determine the length of the game; the 
    farther away the pylon is the longer the game length.  These three 
    tiles are considered obstacles except unlike other obstacle tiles 
    cannot be moved during the game.

    Choose a first player by any agreeable method.  Turns will go 
    clockwise around the table starting with the first player.

    Deal out the remaining tiles evenly to the players, putting 
    any odd tiles aside.  Starting with the first player, each 
    player in turn places a tile, suit side down, anywhere on the 
    racecourse between the start line and the pylon.  These tiles 
    form the set of obstacles for the race.  No obstacle may be 
    placed at the start within three tile widths of either the start 
    line or the pylon.  Obstacles my touch but cannot overlap.  
    Obstacles may be placed in any orientation. Continue placing 
    tiles in turn, until all the dealt tiles have been placed.

    Starting with the first player, each player in turns builds 
    his worm behind the starting line.  The starting position of a 
    worm must be built in a straight line perpendicular to the 
    start line, with only one end disk between the two start 
    line tiles.

    The race

    Starting with the first player, players take turns moving 
    their worms.  The goal is to move your worm from the start 
    line to and around the far side of the pylon and back to the 
    start line first before any other worm.  

    To move your worm, roll your die and move accordingly.  On a 
    2-5 move your worm that many steps (remember that you can move 
    your worm either direction, this may be necessary if blocked by 
    obstacles).  On a null you do not move this turn.  On an ace you 
    may move an obstacle and then roll again.  An obstacle may be 
    moved no more then one tile width from its current position 
    and may be reoriented as the player chooses.

    Winning

    The first player to move one end of his worm between the two 
    start line tiles after having traveled around the far side of 
    the pylon has won the race.  The remaining worms may continue 
    to race to determine second and third place.

    Variant

    For a shorter and simpler game reduce the number of (or 
    completely eliminate) the obstacle tiles.

    Advanced Rules - Cannibal worms

    If when moving your worm, a step would allow you to overlay 
    one of the end disks of another player's worm you may do so 
    and your worm eats that disk, pick it up and give it back to 
    its owner.  This ends your movement for that turn.  The 
    attacked worm, on its next move, must move away from the 
    attacker (steps must be made by picking up disks from the 
    end of the worm that was eaten).  A worm can never move more 
    steps then its length, if you roll higher than the worm's 
    length, the additional steps are lost. When you roll an ace, 
    instead of moving an obstacle, you may add an eaten disk back 
    on to one end of your worm (you still get to roll again).  

    Copyright 2001 by Mark A. Biggar. 
    Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this 
    document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, 
    Version 1.1 or any later version published by the Free Software 
    Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, 
    and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be found at 
    http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html.


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