Has anyone heard any news about how the IcePack Games contest turned out? The announcement said the winner was to be announced August 1st: ...
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Bryan Kornele
bkornele
Aug 3, 2006 7:26 pm
Good Luck. I have been trying to contact Toren since March and nothing. Nada. Zip. By the way has anyone on this list ever ordered anything from Ice Pack...
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Dave Boyle
dboylemesomorph
Aug 9, 2006 10:45 am
The winner: Piecepack Letterbox, by Ron Hale-Evans While we had several games which were very good, Letterbox had the best combination of game play, solid...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 9, 2006 5:28 pm
... W00t! Worth the wait! Thanks, Dave! Thanks also to my game design group EGGS and my regular game night Seattle Cosmic for playtesting, and my beautiful and...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 9, 2006 6:00 pm
Congratulations! :) I'm looking forward to trying the games soon. -Jorge...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 9, 2006 8:42 pm
... Since I'm guessing Dave will not have time to post game PDFs on the Big Board until he returns from GenCon, I've posted the version of Piecepack Letterbox...
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Tim Schutz
hexchex
Aug 10, 2006 12:25 am
... Congratulations to Ron for his winning game Letterbox (I was one of the lucky play-testers)...and I see you made a very fine selection for your...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 10, 2006 12:26 am
Hi I just read the rules and the game seems to be very fun. I don't have a Seasons piecepack set, but I think I'm going to build one to try this one out :) The...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 10, 2006 2:02 am
http://www.ludism.org/piecepack/pplb.html ... Thanks, Jorge! ... Something like this was actually a rule at one point in the design process, but it was hard to...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 10, 2006 3:26 am
... Can you explain? I don't understand... When you finish the game it is easy to prove your letterbox was found (you've got to have at least one of your own...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 10, 2006 4:53 am
... Sorry for being unclear. What I meant was that a rule stating you had to make your clue easy was hard to enforce and didn't help the play. People would...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 10, 2006 12:29 pm
Hello, I understand, and see how enforcing a rule that says the clues cannot be hard would be impossible, as different people would have a different opinion on...
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Clark D. Rodeffer
cdrodeffer
Aug 10, 2006 1:07 pm
... Congratulations, Ron! Indeed, from the preview I saw, Piecepack Letterbox looks like a great game and a worthy winner. Kudos! Since the contest has closed,...
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Electronicwaffle
ElectronicWa...
Aug 10, 2006 1:44 pm
Just to let everyone know that my contest entry "Stacked Deck War" is now in the Rulesets in progress folder. (It is however Complete)....
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piecepack@yahoogroups...
Aug 10, 2006 1:48 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the piecepack group. File : /Rulesets in...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 10, 2006 5:11 pm
... Well, all I can say in the end is that such a rule didn't work with my playtesters in practice. You're free to develop a variant. If it works for your...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 10, 2006 5:31 pm
... I guess it is quite subjective, as I said, I'll have to try it out to really see if it would work... I may find it doesn't work either... Cheers, -Jorge...
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Electronicwaffle
ElectronicWa...
Aug 11, 2006 10:29 am
Perhaps the timing on this question is lacking, and perhaps it should be asked by someone else besides me. However. I think the question remains valid for our...
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Eric Wald
nomic_breadman
Aug 11, 2006 4:50 pm
... No, this is a valid question in any board game, not just the piecepack. ... For my part, I need some luck in games. Otherwise, I start settling into...
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Electronicwaffle
ElectronicWa...
Aug 11, 2006 7:50 pm
I was skimming over Piecepack Letterboxing, and I knew that one of my games had a similar concept. Let me state that I have not read Letterboxing in full, and...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 11, 2006 9:17 pm
Hm, I'm not really sure what you're trying to say about the discussion about hard and easy clues. Could you please elucidate? It might help if you read the...
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Pete Jones
freewargames...
Aug 11, 2006 9:26 pm
Please find my first piecepack game uploaded to the Rulesets in Progress folder in the files. It is a 3 to 4 player strategy game in which you have to get your...
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Kisa Griffin
kisa_griffin
Aug 12, 2006 12:40 am
Congratulations! I had the pleasure of playtesting and going letterboxing with Ron more than once and enjoyed both enough to plan to do them again. Kisa ... ...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 12, 2006 7:01 pm
I tried the game today after building a seasons set. We were only two players, and the game seems to lose some of the fun, but it was enjoyable. We each made...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 12, 2006 9:06 pm
... Thanks to everyone who congratulated me for winning the competition. Kisa, that was an especially nice thing to say. (Kisa really has gone letterboxing...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 12, 2006 9:08 pm
... Wow, Jorge, I'm glad you had fun, but PPLB is definitely not meant to be a two-player game. If you do create a two-player variant that really works well,...
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mschoessow
Aug 12, 2006 10:25 pm
... Great job Ron! I haven't yet played the game but from a read of the rules it sounds like a lot of fun. My impression is that the game is sort of a cross...
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Ron Hale-Evans
rwhe
Aug 12, 2006 11:38 pm
... Thanks, Mike. That means a lot, coming from you. You know how highly I regard Alien City. ... Thanks again. I must say, balancing the scoring system was...
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David Westbrook
baum1919
Aug 13, 2006 1:18 am
How about this as a less binary variant: at the end of the game, give each player points equal to 2 times either the number of players who guessed his ...
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Jorge Arroyo Gonzalez
makasoft
Aug 13, 2006 1:43 am
... Well, I think the game can be played with 2, but it loses a lot of the fun. All the "uncertainty" of not knowing who found what is gone because you both...
