Re: [piecepack] Re: New piecepack components? Dice cards and paper dice

[Ron Hale-Evans <rwhe@...>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 10:56:18AM -0800, Ron Hale-Evans wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:44:21AM -0000, Tim Schutz wrote:
> > >   How about just having a deck of 24 cards that mimic the 24 tiles, 
> > >   plus perhaps a couple of jokers and maybe a couple of blanks?
> > > 
> > >   -Mike
> > 
> > This makes the most sense to me. It quite simple and ties in with 
> > the piecepack really well. I already have a few ideas for the joker.  
> > I can get easily get 6 standard poker size cards on a single sheet of 
> > paper.

By the way, besides being wild cards, Jokers can serve other functions
in a dice card deck.  For example, when you draw a Joker, you could
reshuffle the deck.  This is something suggested in the rulebook for
the Deck of Dice.

Ron

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