[Icehouse] Re: two Treehouse questions

[Eric Wald]

Carol Townsend wrote:
> > 1) W trumps G
> > You pick an action, and apply it to either the trio or the house.
> > You may choose to apply it to the house even if the action you picked
> > could be applied to your trio.
>
> This is the right interpretation.  Wild trumps general rule.  You pick
> an action AND you choose where to play it.

This is how we've been playing, as well.

> 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.

This is excessively confusing.  It would probably be better to have the
"no passing" rule trump the wild rule.

> > P.S.: Was the ascii-art treehouse notation clear?
> >         < = left leaning        3 = large piece
> >         ^ = upright             2 = medium piece
> >         > = right leaning       1 = small piece
> >             stacks are listed top to bottom
> >
> > Ex.:    Initial House: <3 ^1 >2
> >         Initial Tree:  ^1,2,3
> >         A Nest:        ^3,2,1
> >
> Yeah!  This was great!  Totally understandable, especially now that I
> see how you're notating Trees and Nests.  Cool!!

I agree.  The only thing I would do to improve it is to use slashes
instead of commas, to make the stacks explicit.
            Initial Tree:  ^1/2/3
            A Nest:        ^3/2/1

- Eric