Looney Labs Aquarius Mailing list Archive

[Aquarius] thoughts about diagonal doubles & quads

  • FromAlison <alison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateWed, 07 Sep 2005 15:01:16 -0400
continuing from my last post: six player musings:

Hey, think about quads that are divided diagonally while we're at it. (same number of diagonal quads but they'd behave radically differently. Whereas diagonal duos would at least connect two sides, diagonal quads would be like dead ends. They'd still count as a panel, but it would totally block off a side. Interesting.

Lets see, for 5 player AQ with all possible quads and diagonal doubles and quads added (if we still have doubles of the full-panel "aces") we'd need a deck of only... herm... 60 regular quads, 60 diagonal quads, 10 long halves, 10 short halves, 20 diagonal halves, 10 full panel cards. = 170 cards. Plus action cards and goals. Maybe you'd want to increase those? That might get awful, trading goals maybe 5 times and shuffling goals 5 times, and... whoof. Well, that would add...15 cards, plus the goal cards, is 20 for a grand total of 190 cards in the deck.


Current Thread