- A "quarterpack" is a "stripped" aka "short" piecepack deck comprised of just the six tiles, six coins, die, and pawn of a single suit.
- The name was coined by Tim Schutz who designed the game which coin for it.
- A quarterpack will likely fit into a small tin box such as an "Altoids" tin (assuming the piecepack components are not larger than the "usual" sizes).
- It may be preferable to use a non-moons suit so the "suited" and "unsuited" sides of the tiles and coins are quite visually distinct.
- Largest rectangular board supported by 6 tile backs is 9 x 6 (using the "points" of the tiles with Xiangqi-style "rivers" separating every tile from each other).
The Games
- which coin was invented for the quarterpack.
- ConsensusFantasy is playable with a quarterpack. Some of the other role-playing games that use only a single d6 for resolution could also probably be adapted somehow.
- By using four unsuited pieces (i.e. coin faces) versus four suited pieces (two coin backs, one die, and one pawn) it is possible to adapt Quatri and JulGonu to the quarterpack
- ChangeChange can be adopted for the quarterpack as well (four tile backs, four coin backs, two coin faces, one pawn all as different ChangeChange "coins").
- The asymmetrical number of pieces in the quarterpack (6 coins versus 1 pawn) may suggest a mini "Tafl" game or "Fox" game it is not clear what mini variants (if any) already exist. Fox and Hounds only needs 5 pieces but uses an 8x8 board.