why do you need to have the teams be fair? If there are eight players... had out all ten goals and if two matching goals aren't in play so be it... but if the two that are out are not matched then the two players that have those goals play maverick. I think you might want a couple extra trade goals to help get you out of that mess... my two cents --- Alison <alison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm on a roll here. Since you're going to have to > sacrifice a deck or two > to create these monster decks I'm imagining, what do > you do with the extra > goals? I wonder what would happen if you handed out > doubles of goals, so > that pairs of people were teamed up, but they'd have > to figure out who they > were teamed with? Would you have to play with > exactly 10 people? I think > it would always have to be an even number, and you'd > have to figure out how > to randomly exclude a pairs of the same goal. > > But that's possible. For each time you need to hand > out goals, first > divide them into matching pairs, then mix up the > stacks of pairs, randomly > removing as many pairs as you need to get the right > number of cards for the > number of players, without looking at which goals > are out. Then mix up the > remaining pairs into single mixed up cards and hand > them out. > > Then you could play a 6 (or 8 or 10) player game, > without even having to > add an element. This might be a totally stupid > idea, but it would be > interesting to try at any rate. Maybe once. > > Whew... I think I'm done. I should really work now. > Thanks for humoring my ramblings. > Think this will get some talk on the list? > (even if only to shoot down my ramblings) > :) > > -Alison > _______________________________________________ > Aquarius mailing list > Aquarius@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/aquarius > Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of. ______________________________________________________ Click here to donate to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate3/