[Gmaster479]

How many of you have played this game? You know the game where you make lines on a board and you try to avoid letting everyone else make squares? If you don't I'll explain it and run through a basic game for you.

Let's just say that Player 1 is first. He makes a line on the page. It has to be vertical or horizontal and can only be between 2 dots. After that Player 2 makes a line, probably in a different place, in just the same way.

I'm thinking this game will have 4 players and even though it seems easy at first, after a while you want to try and avoid making the third line of a square because the next player can then make a square, put his or her intials in it and then proceed to go again. Possibly making another square. In the end the person with the most squares with their initials in it wins.

In a couple hours, The next post will have an example of how a game would end.

EXAMPLE SIGN UP:

Player 1: GMaster479 (GM)

Player 2: A.I (AI)

Player 3: WilsonsMum (WM)

Player 4: voltage: (VT)

[Guest]

x--x--x--x--x--x

|A |A |p |p |p |

x--x--x--x--x--x

|A |A |p |p |p |

x--x--x--x--x--x

|A |A |		|

x--x--x  x--x  x

|GM|GM|	 |  |

x--x--x--x--x--x

|GM|GM|GM|Ka|Ka|

x--x--x--x--x--x

29, 35

29, 30

23, 29

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[Gmaster479]

Sorry, so excited that I won that I pressed the 'Add Reply' button

Edited May 22, 2009 by Gmaster479

[Gmaster479]

x--x--x--x--x--x

|A |A |p |p |p |

x--x--x--x--x--x

|A |A |p |p |p |

x--x--x--x--x--x

|A |A |GM|GM|GM|  

x--x--x--x--x--x

|GM|GM|GM|GM|GM|

x--x--x--x--x--x

|GM|GM|GM|Ka|Ka|

x--x--x--x--x--x

23,24

22,29

21,22

16,22

17,23

18,24

Final Score

GMaster: 11

Andromeda: 6

Plasmid: 6

Kathleen: 2

2 for 2!

Plasmid, I'm thinking about trying your 4 x 4 x 1 idea only with 6 players. Would you mind posting the rules you gave from your last post and start the sign-ups?

[plasmid]

Plasmid, I'm thinking about trying your 4 x 4 x 1 idea only with 6 players. Would you mind posting the rules you gave from your last post and start the sign-ups?

I'm going to be out of town in the latter part of next week to hunt for apartments with unknown accessibility to the internet so I won't be able to play, but if you'd like you can hit reply and then copy and paste these instructions in a new thread, and of course edit them if anything could use editing:

This is a version of the game Dots (see this thread) where people take turns drawing lines between dots on a grid, and score points by making complete boxes out of the lines. But now we're making things a bit harder by taking it to three dimensions. Instead of drawing lines to form some squares, we're drawing planes to make some cubes.

This first attempt at it will have a relatively simple grid: 4 cubes across, 4 cubes up-and-down, and 1 cube deep. A lot like the old 2-D version, except that now each cube also has a top and a bottom "lid" that needs to be filled in (as well as the usual four sides) before you can score it.

The game board looks like this at the start.

Top lids		   Boxes			  Bottom lids

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +

The grid labeled "Boxes" is a cross-section through the middle of the grid of cubes, much like the grid with a regular game of dots. The two new grids labeled "Top lids" and "Bottom lids" are where you put the two other planes on the top and the bottom of each cube to form the 3-D boxes. It might be easier to see than to explain: here's a grid after a few turns have been taken.

Top lids		   Boxes			  Bottom lids

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +--+--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +

	XX				|  |  |			 XX XX	

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +

	   XX				|						 

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +

The box in the middle-upper-right that has all four sides in place hasn't been scored yet because it doesn't have a top lid. Eventually the players could start scoring boxes (and putting their initials insite the boxes they've scored) like so

Top lids		   Boxes			  Bottom lids

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +--+--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +

	XX XX			 |Me|Me|			 XX XX	

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +--+--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +


+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +

	   XX				|Yu|				XX	

+  +  +  +  +	  +  +  +--+  +	  +  +  +  +  +

One note about the actual mechanics of playing the game: the software running this forum doesn't cooperate with editing fixed-width pictures like this very well, so follow these steps to make sure all goes smoothly when you take your turn:

Open your favorite little text editor (like Notepad or Wordpad or whatever Macs use) and change your font to something fixed-width (like Courier New). Then before you reply to the previous post, copy the game board from the Code box and paste it into your text editor. Then add your line (or lid), and if you completed a cube, then add your initials to the middle of it. Once you're done with the text editor, hit Reply and copy and paste the game board into the message, and then highlight everything and press the "Wrap in code tags" button on the top of the Brainden editor pane right above the area where you type.

It might sound like a lot when you see the instructions written out, but it's really not that bad. If you do score a cube, then add another line (or lid) on the same turn, and if that scores another cube then add another, etc., as long as you keep scoring cubes.

[Gmaster479]

Thank you Plasmid, your thread is now up and I'm sorry you might not be able to play .

I think the two threads will increase the playability of the game and I ask that 4 new people sign up on this thread and others sign up on the new 3D thread so everyone can play

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