[Icehouse] two Treehouse questions

[Andrew Plotkin]

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Carol Townsend wrote:

>
> Remember also that the "no passing" rule gets a bit weird here.  If
> you can do something on your own trio, youv'e got to do that, even if
> you've rolled a wild.  The only way you can pass is (a) you roll a
> wild  (b) you pick an action that you CAN'T do on your Tree but you
> can do on the House and (c) you choose not to do that action on the
> House.  If you pick something that you can't do on either, then you
> roll again.  If you pick something that you can do to your Tree and
> the House, you can pick which one you do it on.

Great. That's the opposite of the way I implemented it (and have been 
playing it.) It also seems like an unfortunate level of doublethink: "I'm 
going to pick Dig because I can't apply it to my trio, and then I'll 
decide not to do it to the House!" The way I've been playing, wild means 
what it says: play any (valid) action on your trio or the House.

I see that the rule notes specify your interpretation, but I was going by 
the label when I learned to play.

--Z

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