Re: [piecepack] coin thickness

["Jorge Arroyo" <trozo@...>]

Yeah, I hadn't thought about the thickness of the tiles... My own hand made
set is made of hard but quite thin cardboard (about 1-2mm). I like that it's
much easier to handle and shuffle than the thicker version I did first...
but of course, the tiles don't stand on their sides... It's also not quite
adecuate for flicking coins on the tiles, because they tend to move
around...

-Jorge



On 8/6/07, Michael Van Biesbrouck <mlvanbie@...> wrote:
>
> On 8/5/07, Jorge Arroyo <trozo@...> wrote:
> >   I was thinking of maybe making coins out of the same wood as the
> tiles,
> > this would make them the same thickness (about 3mm). Does anyone know of
> > games that need a specific ratio of coin to tile thickness? I'm thinking
> > that if coins are the same as the tiles, a tile can be placed over 4
> coins
> > to the same height as over another tile, and also, a tile can be placed
> over
> > 2 coins and half a tile, which might be a nice feature for future games
> > too...
>
> Some of the Blue Panther sets have coins the same thickness as tiles
> (plastic and travel) and I don't recall any complaints.  The only
> issue that I've considered is that thin tiles can't be put on edge
> reliably and thick coins are undesirably.  I wanted to use tiles on
> edge for one game port but I don't think that it would work with many
> sets.
>
> Michael
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>