Editing DualPiecepacks

"Dual piecepacks" are eight piecepack "suits" with the following properties: * The eight **suits** can be "easily" visually distinguished * The eight suits can be "easily" visually split into two separate **groups** of four suits * Each "suit" in a group can be "easily" visually **linked** with exactly one suit in the other group This gives one the following nice properties: * One can play games requiring one piecepack deck plus an expansion piecepack deck by treating the eight **suits** as separate suits * One can play games requiring two piecepack decks by treating each pair of **linked** suits as the same suit * One can play games that are "[[SixPack]]" friendly by taking three suits from each visually distinct **group**. One can scale this down to games that are "[[PlayingCardsExpansion]]" friendly or even scale up to four-grouped-suits versus four-grouped-suits friendly games (like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_checkers Canadian checkers]] or [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess Bughouse chess]]). * One can play entirely new games provided by the extra layer of relationships. Proof-of-concept new game is [[DualPiecepacksPoker]]. [[TrevorLDavis]] has created some [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/dual-piecepacks-pnp.html|proof of concept decks]] illustrating the concept: # One [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/share/pnp/dual1_letter.pdf|piecepack-suited piecepack]] paired with a [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/share/pnp/dual2_letter.pdf|latin-suited piecepack]] in an "inverted" color scheme # One (4-color) [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/share/pnp/dual3_letter.pdf|french-suited piecepack]] paired with another [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/share/pnp/dual4_letter.pdf|french-suited piecepack in a "light" color scheme]] (this should look familiar to fans of the the [[RainbowDeck]]). # One [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/share/pnp/dual5_letter.pdf|black swiss-suited piecepack]] paired with one [[https://trevorldavis.com/piecepackr/share/pnp/dual6_letter.pdf|white swiss-suited piecepack]] (this scheme could be improved by adding more suit symbols to the components, better color-blind-friendly piecepack designs are in progress). It is possible to construct three piecepacks where each pair of piecepack decks are "dual piecepacks" (e.g. piecepack-suited + inverted latin-suited + light french-suited). This could be called a "trial [[HoardPack]]" (apparently "trial" is the proper "three" analogue to "dual"). == Reviews == Innovative! Generated by Special Prize winner piecepackr. Literally adds a third (mathematical) dimension to the existing piecepack (for example, light vs. dark in addition to suits and values). This has a lot of potential and is //really cool//, but I'd probably be even more impressed if I weren't already aware of the three-dimensional card game [[https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1198/set Set]] or my own 10-dimensional game system the [[http://ludism.org/tinfoil/Kilodeck Kilodeck]]. I am impressed that Trevor submitted a game that uses the Dual Piecepacks expansion, namely DualPiecepacksPoker. --RonHaleEvans, [[Where No One Has Gamed Before]], October 2018

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