Editing SixteenSegments

Discussion on Facebook: **TrevorLDavis**: Not sure how to use such a mechanic in a game (other than keeping score) but you can use PiecepackMatchsticks to write numbers and letters like you would with a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display seven/fourteen/sixteen segment display] ---- **RonHaleEvans**: The mention of seven-segment displays made me think of [https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/285570/decipher this superb word game] by the creators of Cosmic Encounter, which I own in its original 1981 incarnation as Runes. Point is, could you port Runes/Decipher to piecepack matchsticks, or mimic the mechanic? Following links from the seven segment display article in Wikipedia, I concluded that a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment_display 16-segment display] is best suited for PiecepackWordGames. There is already a well-established Roman alphabet for it, and you only need 'A' and '2' matchsticks for the short orthogonals and short 45-degree diagonals. Of course, you could play with more than one set of matchsticks. Also, you can swap out two short sticks in a line for one long one, to free up some short ones. [[image/class:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/16-segmente.png/115px-16-segmente.png|The individual segments of a 16-segment display|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment_display|The individual segments of a 16-segment display|]] [[image/class:https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmadison/LED-Segment-ASCII/master/Images/All%20Characters/16-Segment-ASCII-All.png|The best 16-segment character set||The best 16-segment character set (click to magnify)|]] **** I'm very excited about this potential new game //subsystem// for the piecepack! ---- **DanBurkey** (creator of PiecepackMatchsticks): I was wondering what to do with this experiment in writing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark Elder Futhark] runes with the matchsticks... Elder Futhark runes have been in the public domain for about 1200 years. From a while back: [[image/class:https://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/download/FutharkMatchsticks.jpg|Elder Futhark runes with piecepack matchsticks|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark|Elder Futhark runes with piecepack matchsticks|]] I think I ran out of sticks before completing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odal_(rune) Othila]. So there is a resource limit to the matchsticks that could be worked into a game. Like a broken LCD display that doesn’t have enough energy to show all segments at once perhaps? //(there is enthusiastic interest)// ---- Publisher's pages for Letter Piece Game system (including downloadable rules): * [https://heidelbaer.de/en/decipher-en/ Decipher] * [https://heidelbaer.de/en/wordsmith-en/ Word­smith] * [https://letterpiecegames.heidelbaer.de/ online app] [[image/class:https://heidelbaer.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Letter-Piece-Game_logo-1-150x150.png|Letter Piece Game logo|https://heidelbaer.de/en/|Letter Piece Game logo|]] == Image Credits [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:16-segmente.png Static sixteen-segment display] by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:DominikSL DominikSL] / [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons [https://www.partsnotincluded.com/segmented-led-display-ascii-library/ LED Segment ASCII Library] by [https://www.partsnotincluded.com/about/ Dave Madison], via GitHub

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