Re: Need a good game for three

["Iain Cheyne" <news@...>]

--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Mark A. Biggar"
<mark.a.biggar@c...> wrote:
> Iain Cheyne wrote:

> > Incidentally, the rules to Worm Derby are very similar to
> > Würmeln, the Alex Randolph game from 1994.
> > www.boardgamegeek.com/viewitem.php3?gameid=404
> >
> > Mark Biggar: Was this coincidental? It seems it would be easy to
> > adapt Würmeln to the Piecepack.
>
> From the pictures on
> Boardgamegeek, Wurmeln seem to use 7 unit worms and there also
seems to
> be a version of the game themed to camel caravans.  I also notice
that
> it uses the same "pick a die face and same faces cancel" idea

I try to adapt Würmeln to the piecepack. If it plays well, I'll
write
up the rules and submit it to Piecepack.org.

> All this means that I should probably at least put a note in
the "Worm
> Derby" rules that thanks Alex Randolf for his inspiration, now that
I
> know about it.  I just updated by piecepack wiki "Worm Derby" with
info
> and will eventually get around to updating the ruleset on
www.piecepack.org.

It was a nice coincidence that I was idly browing the geek the other
day looking at the games Alex Randolph has written.

Good work on the wiki by the way. You've been filling it out nicely.

--
Iain