I hear ya, Avri. My evil plan (or at least, it would be evil if Theo didn't already love games so much) is to wait until my kid(s) get old enough to play this pile of games I've been amassing over the years; my wife helped out for a little while until she got too busy raising Theo to have time to play games. Theo does like Treehouse already; he's not quite up to the strategy on most games, but I figure, that will come soon enough [he's only 4]. Also, it seems very likely that he will treat me like I treated my own dad -- my dad taught me chess at around 5yrs and I started beating him at around 6yrs. Theo already seems to be plenty smart -- and in addition, I'm older than my dad was, so his youth advantage should be even more pronounced. My wife and I plan to have another child "any time now"+9months, so of course it'll be a while before we have 4 for Icehouse, unless we get outside help, or other family members move closer. Good luck! Ankhst > X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on lists.looneylabs.com > X-Spam-Level: > X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=disabled version=3.1.0 > X-Original-To: icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Delivered-To: icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:27:54 -0400 > From: Avri Klemer <avri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Re: [Icehouse] Shotgunning > To: Icehouse Discussion List <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-priority: Normal > X-Barracuda-Bayes: SPAM GLOBAL 1.0000 1.0000 4.3430 > X-Barracuda-Spam-Report: Code version 3.1, rules version 3.1.23136 Rule breakdown below pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- > X-Barracuda-Spam-Flag: YES > > The trick is finding 3 other people you can convince to play. "Finding > Icehouse Opponents 101" - now there's a class I'd take. *sigh* > > a > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Elliott C. Evans" <eeyore@xxxxxxxx> > > > Icehouse *is* a pretty complex game, but it's based on simple concepts > > and you can start playing fairly quickly. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse