Hi all-- I saw the need for a central clearinghouse of information about topics such as mental calculation and memory techniques, so I created the Mentat Wiki....
Here's an assigment to help people get into the moratics mindset: Choose any two distincly different games you play over the next week and post to this list...
Hey all-- The front page of the Center for Ludic Synergy has been rewritten so as to be less freaky, more informative, and prettier. You can see it here: ...
Hi all-- The list has been quiet lately. Are people still interested in the Moratics project? It strikes me that a mailing list might be the wrong medium for...
BASIC GRAND STRATEGY "The key to success is to take advantage of your strengths, whatever they are, and minimize the effect of your weaknesses; to attack -- or...
Hi, all-- The Moratics list has been pretty dead lately, but we have a new listmember tonight who probably has some interesting things to say: Alex Rockwell....
Please welcome Kisa Gryphon to the list. Kisa is a member of my gaming group Seattle Cosmic, and has recently developed an interest in expanding the way he...
A couple of days ago, I posted the following stratagem as part of a discussion of polyomino games and how to generalise strategy from them: "If you cannot...
I agree that it is important to analyse individual games and compare them with one another, as Edward Shultz and Edge are now doing with Carcassonne and Tigris...
I doubt that grand strategy statements are going to help any of us play a game better. I suggest that we pick some games which are well known, and compare ...
Found a copy of the first volume in Martin Gardner's series of mathematical game collections from _Scientific American_ last night. Flipping through the...
All-- Please welcome Edward "Edge" Montgomery to the Moratics list. He is our twelfth member. ... Date: Sat, 04 May 2002 19:40:26 -0700 To: moratics Moderator...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the moratics group. File : /metagames.txt...
Please welcome Darryl Rubin to the Moratics list. He is lucky member #13. I have a couple of comments on the Player Count Adjustments/Balancing terminology...
Since no one else has stepped forward to my query, I propose we call the things that vary with the number of players in a game (such as the number of cards...
FYI, I just posted the following message to both rec.games.abstract and rec.games.board: ****************************************************************** ...
Please extend a hearty Moratics project welcome (whatever that might be; I hope it doesn't involve fezzes and little cars) to Tim Schutz, whom I know from...
Greetings Matthew Frederick! I agree that Chad's idea of looking for how the game is modified, etc., is a good idea, and I also agree that Marty's idea of...
Please welcome Eric Shultz to the list. Eric, if you check the archives, you can catch up on the discussion pretty quickly. As for the cabbage question, read...
And then there were seven. Welcome, Jeff! There hasn't been much discussion yet, but if you look in the archives, you'll see the question of the moment is:...
Marty Hale-Evans has just joined the list. For those of you who don't know her, she is my wife and co-conspirator in game design. She's also a damn fine...
Welcome, Bryan! You're the fifth person to join. There hasn't been much discussion yet, but there are a few messages in the archives you might want to read...
Welcome to Chad, John, and Karl. I just signed up Chad because he was sent the "pending" message that you get if you try to subscribe to the list cold. I...
