Don S. wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QWUkZGVobY > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfChsy1iNU > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXfChsy1iNU > > These are awesome. I plan to watch these very carefully when I get > home. Thanks eeyore! Hopefully more carefully than I copypasted the URLs. The second URL should be - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y32IT0POCc > My unsubstantiated gut instinct is that an "underhead" shot would > be better as it would avoid people's hands and heads. It would, > of course, require a glass table and I'm not sure how conducive > that is to a stable game of Icehouse (unless you've got rubberized > pieces or something). The glass table itself is not a problem for playing Icehouse. Glass is not as slick as you might think. I've been considering removing the "nostril view" aspect of the under-table view by frosting the top surface of the glass, but then you might not be able to see who is doing what. Piece placement should still show clearly, though. > In the perfect land of puppies and candy that is my imagination > that's how someone goes about making the supreme "how to play > icehouse" instructional video. Even as somebody who understands Icehouse well, I find it difficult to follow a game of it in which I am not participating. -- Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore@xxxxxxxx