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Summary: * My son has wanted to play what he calls "Capture the Flag" four nights in a row so I've added the GamesForChildrenCategory tag to the game. * My . . .
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> * My son has wanted to play what he calls "Capture the Flag" four nights in a row so I've added the GamesForChildrenCategory tag to the game.
> * My son doesn't really care about the "place tiles on domino racks" scheme I had come up with to tell what your pieces are without needing to flip any pieces over and he is fine flipping over his own pieces frequently.
> * However, my son does like having two rank-customizable dice and 10 coins instead of 12 coins so it is easier to implement handicapping schemes like giving him extra "5" pieces if his Dad (who may have played a bunch of Stratego as a teenager) is winning too often.
> -- TrevorLDavis 2023-06-30 19:30 UTC
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# Stratego is an active trademark of Jumbo Games. I'm not a lawyer but StraToGo seems to phonetically be a very similar name to Stratego... Stratego is basically an implementation of the 1908 game L'Attaque (whose American trademark seemingly was allowed to expire in the 90s) suggesting Piece Attack, P'Attaque, Piecepack Attack, etc. as possible alternative names that directly indicate what the game is about without such a high "Likelihood of confusion" with an active trademark...
-- TrevorLDavis 2023-05-15 03:52 UTC
I played a couple games with my 6 and a half year old with some simplifications to make it more tractable for my young opponent:
"Each player takes the coins and pawn from two suits. One player taking red and yellow, the other blue and black."
. Perhaps it would be best to simplify that to "Each player takes the coins and pawn from two suits."
with perhaps a footnote of your preferred way to do that. According to the AnatomyOfAPiecepack crowns can also be green instead of yellow and some players are color blind. Red/yellow versus blue/black is a popular scheme and with the JcdPiecepack would give you "light" versus "dark" designed suits but some players and designs prefer "astronomical" versus the "power" suits. -- TrevorLDavis 2023-06-26 21:56 UTC
-- TrevorLDavis 2023-06-30 19:30 UTC