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[Andy Looney <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone! Sorry to be slow in replying, but there's just too much to 
do!!!

It was never my intention that players be allowed to place the coasters in 
"offset" positions. To me, it feels obvious that you can't do that. 
However, since it doesn't actually forbid this in the rules, and some 
people might actually like playing it that way, I could see a House Rule 
being developed to allow such placements.

I suppose I should have thought of this myself and said something about it 
in the rules, but you just can't think of everything. That's the thing 
about being a Game-System Designer: when you create flexible game 
components, players are destined to take them in directions you hadn't 
thought of. I think this may be making me lax about trying to think of 
every possible misinterpretation... after all, what I may deem to be an 
obvious "you can't do that" may turn out to be the key idea that leads to 
creation of some new, even better game for this particular Game System.

The point is, I don't like filling my rulesets up with statements about 
what you cannot do, because ultimately, I hate limiting creativity. That 
said, the answer to the question lies in the omission of the issue from the 
rules. If players were indeed allowed to offset the coasters, this option 
would be explicitly mentioned in the rules, and the finer points of it 
explained. Since I didn't say you can do so, you should assume you can't... 
unless you convince the group you're playing with that it's better that 
way, in which case, go for it!

-- Andy