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Re: [Icehouse] New Game: Chicken Run

  • From"Timothy Hunt" <games@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateWed, 7 Nov 2007 14:37:51 -0600
Buy a Xeno set? ;) ;)

Timothy

On 11/7/07, miyu <xmiyux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Anyone have ideas for playing some of these games that require
> unmatched sets?  My club owns like 12 sets of Treehouse pieces but
> they are all Rainbow - no Xeno.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>             -Ryan
>
> On Nov 7, 2007 3:06 PM, David Artman <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi, all;
> >
> > A flash of inspiration, a bit of whimsy, some noodling; and I have come
> > up with...
> > Chicken Run
> > (http://icehousegames.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chicken_Run)
> >
> > Two families, a brace of chickens, unruly spectators on the sidelines:
> > you've got a mad-cap game for two players using two unmatched Treehouse
> > sets (Rainbow and Xeno) and a 5x9 board. Which family will be first to
> > round up two chickens? How many spectators (and opposing family
> > members!) will be trampled in the process?
> >
> > Find out for yourself!
> >
> > (Note: I'd really like some help with the diction of some of the
> > rules--anywhere it seems "stiff" or awkward or hard to follow. It's one
> > of those games that takes a minute to explain when you have pieces in
> > front of you, but somehow takes two or three pages to spell out
> > exactingly. I may also be going a bit overboard with the "technical
> > writing" tone and maybe I could dial it back to a more
> > conversational--if longer-winded--diction. Or maybe I need a table of
> > some kind, in particular with regards to legal versus illegal movement
> > of pieces?)
> >
> > Thanks!
> > David
> >
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