Re: [piecepack] Re: Need a good game for three

["Mark A. Biggar" <mark.a.biggar@...>]

Iain Cheyne wrote:

> --- In piecepack@yahoogroups.com, "Tim Schutz" <hexchex@i...> wrote:
>  > I don't know what type of game you are looking for. But two games
>  > that I know of and enjoy and fit the bill are Kidsprout Jamboree
>  > and Worm Derby.
>
> Thanks Tim. They both look very promising.
>
> Incidentally, the rules to Worm Derby and are very similar to
> W�rmeln, the Alex Randolph game from 1994.
> www.boardgamegeek.com/viewitem.php3?gameid=404
>
> Mark Biggar: Was this coincidental? It seems it would be easy to
> adapt W�rmeln to the Piecepack.

Yeah, I stole, I mean borrowed, the worm movement idea from Wurmeln, a
game that I've never played and have seen being played only once.  I 
didn't even know the name Wurmeln until now.  I just looked to up an 
Boardgamegeek and that is the game I saw being played several years ago. 
 Every thing else in the game is different, at least I think so, as I've
never actually read the rules to Wurmeln.  From the pictures on
Boardgamegeek, Wurmeln seem to use 7 unit worms and there also seems to
be a version of the game themed to camel caravans.  I also notice that
it uses the same "pick a die face and same faces cancel" idea my nephew
independently invented for our Changing Landscapes games "Global 
Warming" (I thought that seemed familiar.)  When I wrote up "Worm Derby"
I just vaguely remembered the worm movement from Wurmeln and nothing
else, so I made up my own game based on that movement mechanism from
scratch, so any similarities (other then the worm movement) are purely
coincidental.

All this means that I should probably at least put a note in the "Worm
Derby" rules that thanks Alex Randolf for his inspiration, now that I
know about it.  I just updated by piecepack wiki "Worm Derby" with info
and will eventually get around to updating the ruleset on www.piecepack.org.

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