Conspicuous by its absence from your lists, Emperor Andy, is the fiddly, obscure, sometimes irritating, much-maligned, and much-beloved obsession/game, Icehouse. :-) Andy, was that omission accidental, or did Icehouse actually fit in neither list for you? I can't wait to play Zark City, and it ~was~ totally unfair to put two unavailable games on your list. How the Heck do we play them? Yes, I know "wait"... I am reading this book on patience, but it's soooo long. Isn't there a faster way to learn patience? Never minding that for a moment, I've noticed a mysterious red triangle with a "1" in it on the spine of my "Playing with Pyramids"... Does that mean that one day, I will have a short shelf of "Playing with Pyramids"es, each with their own triangle, their own unique number and perhaps color, too? --David ----- "Andy Looney" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: (two (or three) lists, none of which included the venerated classic...) > This is a difficult challenge! I have many favorites that I had to > leave > off this list because 7 is just such a small number! But here's a list > of > my 7 current favorites, based on what I'm playing the most often right > now, > or would be most likely to be enthusiastic about playing. Of course, > being > rather badly biased, most of these are my own designs, but isn't that > what > you'd expect of me? And to make matters worse, two of these are games > I > haven't even released yet! (Sorry about that...) Anyway, here's my > list: > > 1) Binary Homeworlds > 2) Secret Project PD-09 > 3) Secret Project MB-17 (aka IceGlotz-17) > 4) Zark City > 5) World War 5 > 6) Volcano > 7) IceTowers > > Honorable Mention: Martian Hold'em and Hearts (i.e. using the pyramids > as > scorekeeping tokens) > > More Honorable Mentions: Black ICE, Martian Chess, Treehouse, and > RAMbots > > As for my 3 least favorites: > > X) Zendo: I realize Zendo is wildly popular with some, but I'm > never interested in playing. It's just not my kind of game. > Y) Gnostica: I wrote a whole essay about my beefs with this: > http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Andy/Games/IPreferZarcana.html > Z) Spicklehead: I wish these rules didn't even exist. The idea > of someone getting hurt by my beloved pyramids is my worst > nightmare, so the humor of this one is lost on me. > > Great question! > -- Andy > > > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse