Looney Labs Educators Mailing list Archive

Re: [Edu] been pplaying cosmic coasters

  • FromJay Forbes <jay8828@xxxxxxxxx>
  • DateWed, 2 Aug 2006 18:14:26 -0700 (PDT)
This is a game where it can take forever or can be
over before you know it.  Kind of depends on the
behaviors of the players in the RPS.  Some people are
more predictable than others, and some people are
luckier.  The game is played differently as a 3 player
game.  My friends and I played many 3 player games
(and they took forever, or it was 2 against one and
then became a race to see who could get the ships to
the empty planet) before we realized we were playing
it wrong.  In the rules it says in a 3 player game you
only attack the player on your left (or right I can't
remember exactly).  This way it pretty much becomes 3
different 2 player games.  You are only attacking one
player and only defending one player.  The fact that
the players are different doesn't really matter.  If
you actually read the rules,  and were playing this
way then you're way ahead of us, and I don't know what
to tell you.  
Also, I love the idea of using this to study coins. 
Maybe you could make a modification somehow using
different value coins and be able to upgrade five
penny ships for a nickel ship or something.  Not sure
exactly how it might work, but your boys might like
trying to figure out some new rules.

Jay
  


--- Kimberly Terrill <kiter5@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> first off, the fact that they are moons and yet the
> instructions cal them
> planets id driving all of us a bit batty....
> 
> We have been playing it because we are studying
> cpoins. We decide who goes
> fisrt by who has the oldest coin on the launch
> pad.It has little to do with
> learning about coincs, but when we study something I
> like to do as much as I
> can that has that theme.
> 
> I think we must be doing something wrong. the game
> takes forever, we always
> end up quitting because no one can ever get more
> than one ship on another
> person's moon/planet.
> 
> So, this is my 'how we are using this game in our
> studies'.. not a good
> gaming event this time.
> 
> My boys love the idea of the game, the ships and
> abilities and
> teleporting..... but it is way too drawn out.
> 
> Maybe it is better as a two player game.....
> 
> ~Kimberly
> homeschooling 3 boys
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