Re: [spoon-discuss] Puzzle Games

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday, September 21, 2003, at 02:21 PM, Craig wrote:

> > Doesn't this basically mean that whoever responds fastest wins? At any
> > given time, at most four people will be able to move, and all of them
> > will have exactly one available move; Whoever posts first gets the 
> > move.
>
> Yes, but this frees up another open space. This is because the space 
> they
> were in is now empty.

Right. And now you have the same situation again. The point is, there'd 
be no actual *skill* involved, as the only choice a player has to make 
is whether or not to move, and its always preferable to move.

> > > Another possibility might be to assign people to desired neighbors,
> > > and give
> > > or take points based on how many of their desired neighbors they are
> > > adjacent to. The neighbors should be chosen such that the players can
> > > arrange themselves in a partial grid with all players next to their
> > > desired
> > > neighbors, but they should then be scattered such that nobody starts
> > > out
> > > next to their desired neighbors. If the arrangement was made right,
> > > they
> > > could never all be next to the right people (cf Sam Loyd's "fifteeen"
> > > puzzle).
>
> > There needs to be more than one blank square; otherwise, it becomes
> > just like the above, where most Contestants can't do anything, and the
> > two or three who can do something only have one available move.
>
> Two or three blank squares is probably ideal, in both situations.
>
> Note that the latter encourages cooperation, but only to a limited 
> degree.
>
>  -- Teucer
>
> "Nothing exciting here except the day the volcano went off under us and
> killed everyone in a torrent of fire. Yep, pretty dull."
>  -Baron von Skippy
>
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