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Discussion on Facebook:
TrevorLDavis: Not sure how to use such a mechanic in a game (other than keeping score) but you can use PiecepackMatchsticks to write numbers and letters like you would with a seven/fourteen/sixteen segment display
RonHaleEvans: The mention of seven-segment displays made me think of this superb word game by the creators of Cosmic Encounter, which I own in its original 1981 incarnation as Runes. Point is, could you port Runes/Decipher to piecepack matchsticks, or mimic the mechanic?
Following links from the seven segment display article in Wikipedia, I concluded that a 16-segment display is best suited for PiecepackWordGames. There is already a well-established Roman alphabet for it, and you only need 'A' and '2' matchsticks for the short orthogonals and short 45-degree diagonals. Of course, you could play with more than one set of matchsticks. Also, you can swap out two short sticks in a line for one long one, to free up some short ones.
I'm very excited about this potential new game subsystem for the piecepack!
DanBurkey (creator of PiecepackMatchsticks): I was wondering what to do with this experiment in writing Elder Futhark runes with the matchsticks... Elder Futhark runes have been in the public domain for about 1200 years. From a while back:
I think I ran out of sticks before completing Othila. So there is a resource limit to the matchsticks that could be worked into a game. Like a broken LCD display that doesn’t have enough energy to show all segments at once perhaps?
(there is enthusiastic interest)
Publisher's pages for Letter Piece Game system (including downloadable rules):
Static sixteen-segment display by DominikSL / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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