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Re: [Icehouse] Unknown games....

  • FromJeff Zeitlin <icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • DateWed, 31 Dec 2008 14:06:41 -0500
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:17:04 -0800, "Chris Goodwin" <cgoodwin@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>...that look like they're just begging to be adapted, recreated, or
>otherwise done up in pyramids.  If nothing else, it's also a great resource
>for board ideas.  They're unknown because the owner of the page doesn't have
>rules for them, not because they're archeological finds or anything; I think
>most or all of them probably have entries at BoardGameGeek.
>http://homepages.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/unknown.htm

>Some of the ones that make my designing fingers itch are Anti-Grid,
>Glik/Glak, Celestian, and Jangala.  I really like Glik/Glak's modular board
>idea.

It looks like Jangala would come straight across as a Treehouse game,
playable on a Volcano board.

Also, Canyon looks like it would come straight across as a two-stash
(plus six Volcano Caps to mark the unusable squares) game playable on a
Chessboard Bandana.

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