Re: New Piecepack game (4 Blind Mice)

["Bryan Kornele" <bkornele@...>]

--- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Tim" <juicy_killa@h...> wrote:
> I have adapted a commercially popular game to the piecepack.
> 
> I'm currently waiting for the rules to be posted, in the mean time 
> I'll add the PDF to the "files" section in these groups.
> 
> The game is called "FOUR BLIND MICE" I hope you all enjoy it.
> 
> All feedback is welcome. Good bad and indifferent!
> 
> Later
> - Tim -

Great adaptation game Tim.  Ricochet Robots is one of my favorites.  
I set up your game and played it last night.   I did had just a rule 
clarification question though.

- Rules state:  At the conclusion of the placement phase, the next 
player begins play by turning over his choice of one Ace or Null tile 
located on the playing surface.  

Later in the rules state:  The mice are left where they ended their 
last move, and the next player chooses a coin to turn over.

My Question is:  Are we turning over tiles or coins to determine what 
cheese is the target?  

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A Variant that I was experimenting with last night to make the target 
cheese random was:

Random Cheese:
-  Role the dice and which ever dice showed the smallest number of 
pips determined the cheese as the target.  If dice are tied for 
lowest number then the tied dice are rerolled.
- If both pieces cheese still exist then if the dice read null - 2 
the null cheese as target and a 3-5 determines that the Ace cheese as 
the target. 

More Tiles:
- Another Variant that seemed to play well was to make a 5x5 square 
with the middle piece gone.  The hole in the middle is treatded like 
any other obstacle.

Cheese Stays and Cheese goes:
- I also tried with rolling the dice to determine to take the cheese 
off of the board Example: null-2 it is removed  3-5 it stays.  
- If the cheese stays the player just takes one of the left over 
coins as a scoring marker.

More cheese
- With the cheese stays and cheese goes varient on the 5x5 board I 
also experimented playing with 12 pieces of cheese instead of 8.  


I just got my piecepack so I am looking forward to playing the 
deduction games also.

Thanks
Bryan