I remember the first time I was teaching my boys to play this game. My son (14) did the Prime Number Rule (and later that week it was: "pips must be divisible by 3")- he still thinks the master is trying to 'beat the student'. Kimberly- On Aug 1, 2011, at 4:31 PM, Joshua Kronengold <mneme@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 08/01/2011 07:24 PM, Timothy Hunt wrote: >> As someone around here has said before - the two most common mistakes >> of a new master are: >> >> 1) making a rule too complex by accident >> 2) making a rule too complex on purpose > > Yep. Guage your rule to your group. > > Now, to be fair, "prime number of pieces" isn't a terribly hard rule. But it's not ideal with newbies, particularly ones who aren't yet up to thinking about counting rules. Certainly, you'd want to run "bn iff exactly 3 pieces" before even thinking in that direction. > _______________________________________________ > Icehouse mailing list > Icehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.looneylabs.com/mailman/listinfo/icehouse