Travel piecepack

["mschoessow" <mikeschoessow@...>]

I like playing games on airplanes when I travel. Usually it's just 
me so that limits things to solitair. I have in fact designed 
several playing ard solitaires specifically to be convenient for 
playing on an airline tray-table.

Now it occurs to me that it would be nice to play solitaire 
boardgames while traveling, and following the close of the present 
competition, there are likely to be some good game to choose from. 
There are some obvious problems though, including size (tray tables 
are small) and loss of pieces (it seems like it would be easy to 
drop coins or dice).

So here are some ideas. 

I was considering the construction of a special travel piecepack. It 
would be a bit smaller that a standard piecepack, say with 1" tiles 
and 7/16" coins. The dice could remain the same size as normal. The 
tiles would be acrylic, with very thin steel sheet cemented onto 
each side (or possibly a thin steal sheet sandwhiched between two 
1/8" acrylic sheets), and the coins would be magnetic (any ideas on 
an easy way to achieve this, or where to find inexpensive disk-
shaped weak magnets?). The dice might be acrylic or metal (heavier 
dice are less likely to be dropped) and there would be some 
container method for rolling dice. The pawns would have magnetic 
bottoms.

Comments? Ideas?


-Mike Schoessow