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OK. Tried a few games of Treehouse. I just printed out the
rules and tossed them cold at my husband and said "Let's try
this." We liked it!
I've read a few of the other comments already posted, and I think
they may have some merit, but imho the rules are fine as is. We agree
that perhaps the "capping/stacking" definition which feels so intuitive to us my
need more clarification to a newbie-to-Icehouse person.
People will always read more (or less) into whatever rules are
written. I think simply reading the rules as they are is sufficient to
play the game. Granted, we're not just "casual gamers" and the rules are
quite sparse but just about right. Yes, pictures and such will help (and
online there can be dozens of pictures) but as we were figuring things out in
our first game, we'd go back and realize that the rules covered just about all
of our questions - and the one it didn't cover (see below) was much more of a
"rules-lawyer" sort of question that can be easily dealt with ahead of
time.
Our one rules-lawyer sort of question dealt w/ orientation. Say the
House's line is oriented East-West (East being the "forward" point). Does
that mean that if my trio is oriented North-South it will never match the
House? Or if my "forward" is towards the West, does that matter? I
know, it's a REALLY picky point, but that's the only one we had any significant
questions about after our first couple of games. We decided that since the
rules state that you are always to keep your pieces "oriented the same way
as the House" then that meant East-West, with East being forward. (My
Zendo tendencies jumped in here too much - I felt the pieces were oriented to
themselves and mirror images/rotations were acceptable, but after reading that
orientation part of the rules again and deciding that K.I.S.S. was the watchword
of the day, we went with "oriented exactly like the House" in our games).
hope that helps
Carol
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