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Hmm, let’s see. First of all, I will, probably, if it’s
in the hobby shop, be able to “impulse buy”
the multi-colored tubes, in one or both sets of colors. The wife lets me get
away with it if it’s a relatively inexpensive “impulse buy”,
even if I already know exactly what I’m getting, but she frowns on my
buying the same items on the internet. *shrug* I’m
another one of those suckers for those special dice. On new tubes, it would be cool if each
color had a set of rules for a different single stash game printed on it, but,
for those of us who either have stashes from sets and want to buy empty tubes
for them, or already have stashes in tubes, simply being able to buy the labels
to put on the tubes might be a viable option. Another option might be to see if there
is a suitable pre-made label which we can use to print off the rules to affix
to our stash tubes. This could also
allow us to keep the rules for our favorite single stash game (or two) on the
tube holding our favorite stash. Another Single Stash game from Slick: Epicycle, which could be refined to fit on
a package, I think. Also games like CrackeD ICE, while
requiring a stash per player, doesn’t really require each player to have
individual colors. Actually, when I’ve
played, we haven’t even made it through a full stash worth of pieces. Oh, and the folded up insert costs would
also have to be weighed against the cost of the instruction labels. I.E. will this insert cost more or less
than 2 or 3 labels and is the added clarity allowed from more space worth the
cost difference? After all, even if
the paper is the same size as the two or three labels, you also have the back
of the paper which can be printed on.
Along with the difference in cost of printing, there is the difference
in cost of the label vs the paper, and the cost of affixing the labels vs
inserting the paper into the tube. Is it automated, or done by hand? How much time does each method take (labor
costs)? And if automation of the
process is in the future, which one will be more cost efficient to automate and
its cost effectiveness after automation should to be considered. *scratches
his head and wonders where all that came from* Whoa…ok, it’s still the
weekend, shutting off thinking part of brain…ahhh, that’s better. J I like the idea of the
multi-colored tubes in that it will, hopefully, draw more people into the
Icehouse games. Adding single stash
games to the tubes might also help draw more people in, as that makes it easy
to start playing with just a single stash, making it a less expensive venture
into the world of Icehouse. Each
tube having a different game, or at least having several games to choose from,
gives more incentive to buy more stashes, as well as more reasons to buy the
first stash in the first place, most especially for those who have limited or
no internet access. Yes, even in
this day and age, there are still people who do not have much access to the
internet. J We forget that
sometimes. In any case, I’m all for the
Treehouse set, although I believe that the labels need a bit more refinement. It might also be nice if a set of
graphics could be developed for use in Icehouse rules, with a key, much like
the ones used on the 2nd edition labels. By making the graphics more universal,
confusion can be reduced for new and experienced players alike. Hmm, ok, enough rambling for now, more
will probably follow later, Scott Sulzer -----Original Message----- I might go along with the Tree House is always
green...etc for stores but you may want to folks order them with any color they
like off the web or reserve that priveledge to rabbits. Personally I wouldn't
be particularly thrilled about purchasing another green stash tho i may do it
any way just for the stash tube with the rules and the special die (i am a
sucker for that kinda stuff and would prolly start creating additional
uses for a die with words like dig, hop, tip etc on it(it kinda sounds like a
drinking game, no?)) On 1/22/06, Ragnardove@xxxxxxx
<Ragnardove@xxxxxxx > wrote: In a
message dated 1/22/2006 7:30:57 P.M. Central Standard Time, ssulzer@xxxxxxxxxx
writes:
The
first one that popped into my mind was Martian Chess. No color needed
there. :) Then I did a little checking and found that Thin Ice also
doesn't depend on color (correct me if I'm wrong...) These
games (found on SLICK = http://www.icehousegames.com/SLICK.html
) all only require 1 stash - therefore color isn't an issue. Ice Age IceSickle Rotationary Tic Tac
Doh! (which is in the Ice-7 pack but isn't clickable right now on Slick). I've
played a couple of these, so I can't recommend them for play w/ a single
multi-colored stash, but a quick read through doesn't seem to present any
problems. Please correct me if I'm wrong on this!! Also
after a quick read through, I realized that none of them (with the possible
exception of TTDoh) would be explainable on two sides of the stash tube.
So, I don't think that having Treehouse as green only, Ice Age as cyan, TTDoh
as... I don't know, purple... would work. You'd need to figure in cost
for a folded up insert of rules for each of those. Anyway,
I like the multi-colored tube. Think of Petra and how she uses the
'mids! There's got to be others out there (I'm thinking upper elementary
math manipulatives here...) for whom multicolored tubes would be
advantageous. But that's for y'all to figure out w/ your employees in the
marketing department. <g> Carol
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