• Carteso variants

    From =?UTF-8?Q?Luis_Bola=C3=B1os_Mures?=@21:1/5 to All on Wed Dec 7 01:21:36 2016
    El sábado, 3 de diciembre de 2016, 19:43:11 (UTC+1), Luis Bolaños Mures escribió:
    - One placement per turn, but if it creates a tied group, you must break it with a second placement.

    This seems to work better if the second placement is required to be adjacent to the first one.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Luis_Bola=C3=B1os_Mures?=@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 8 01:30:36 2016
    El sábado, 3 de diciembre de 2016, 17:05:47 (UTC+1), Luis Bolaños Mures escribió:
    - The pieces are dominos (2x1 pieces). No tied groups can ever be created.

    I like this _a lot_. But I think it will be even better if the rule about tied groups is replaced with this:

    "At all times, the sum of the number of rows and the number of columns that a group spans must be an odd number."

    This is more restrictive but requires no counting on the part of the players. It just means that you can't make a move that extends a group by 1 point in one dimension while leaving the other dimension unchanged.

    It occurs to me that, since this might create empty pathways where neither color can be placed, adding an additional third color might be desirable.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?Luis_Bola=C3=B1os_Mures?=@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 9 01:51:01 2016
    - The pieces are dominoes (2x1 pieces). A tied group is claimed by the player with more (or less) pieces in their own orientation in it.

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