Re: [piecepack] Ithaka, Boll's Game, Powerlines

["Mike Schoessow" <mikeschoessow@...>]

Hi Iain,

   I have a list of 60 small abstract games that can be played on a 4x4 board. Some of them also work on larger boards. I may have sent you a copy of this list some time ago (when it only included 46 games); I can't remember. 

   At any rate, anyone who is interested, please e-mail me directly at mjs@... and I'll send my list as an attachment. The list includes the names of authors and publishers in cases where I know them, and also has links to rules sets for most of the games.

-Mike Schoessow
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Iain Cheyne 
  To: piecepack@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:26 AM
  Subject: [piecepack] Ithaka, Boll's Game, Powerlines


  I tried some little abstracts with my wife last weekend. Two were 
  from my list of generic abstracts that should work with the 
  Piecepack - Ithaka and Boll's Game. Neither were much fun to
  play. Ithaka is like glorified tic-tac-toe and we only won or lost 
  games when our opponent got bored and made bad moves. Boll's Game
  was more interesting, but very one-dimensional. All you try to do is 
  to take your opponents' pieces and retreat out of range as far as
  possible. We played on a 6x6 board, but apparently, it's best on
  a 4x4, so I might give it another chance. I'm going to persevere with 
  these Generic Abstracts, but I am not encouraged by these first two.

  The last was Powerlines, which was good. It's elegant and
  skilful. It's probably my favourite piecepack game after Evade
  and Froggy Bottom - although you could easily play it with a pack of 
  cards.

  http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/ithaka.htm
  http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/bollsgame.htm
  http://www.piecepack.org/rules/PowerLines.pdf

  -- 
  Iain