Re: Tariffs

[Mark Biggar <mark@...>]

Good looking game Jonathan.

But I have some questions and comments.

1) Do you ever get more then 2 dominoes in your hand?  The
	way you stated the rule about the initial 2 domino draw
	seems to imply that you can.

2) Are the dominoes in a player's hand public?  This is implied by
	the trading rules, but you don't say anything about it.

3) Blank domino halves mean 0 tariff right?  You should be
	explicit.

4) It seems that you could get into a never ending game where
	all the player's want to do is rotate a domino back and
	forth (think about the six-blank.)  You may want a
	no-rotate back rule.

5) As there appears to be no way to change a domino once it is
	placed on the board, dumping a six-six, six-five or
	five-five onto a corner tiles pretty much hoses the player
	that has that tile on their route.  Having one of those
	dominoes in your hand makes for a great bargaining threat.

6) do you have to visit your numbered tiles in order (2-5)?  If not
	you should explicitly say so.

7) Can your route include loops?

8) finally, if a non-declaring player (unlikely as it is) can trace
	a route that contains no dominoes at all, does he then get	
	a route of all 2's?

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