[Icehouse] How many colors do you use? (Zendo)

[Kimberly Terrill]

I usually only play with kids and I have found it's easier to add colors
than make the rules more complex and playing with adults we just add rule
complexity- so I guess it just depends who you are playing with if you want
to add colors or not. "know your customer" I guess works here.

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Timothy Hunt <games at timothy.org.uk> wrote:

> INtroducing more colours introduces additional (frustrating)
> complexity, as now one of the attributes has 11 possibilities instead
> of 4.  This is much different from the other attributes.
>
> I've always found that if I want to increase the complexity, that the
> better solution is to make the rule more complex rather than adding
> colours.
>
~ Kimberly
http://kabersblog.blogspot.com


>
> Timothy
>
> On 3/21/08, Benjamin Kleber <benjamin.kleber at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've played Zendo with a good assortment of different groups, players
> >  of different experience levels - ranging from my 7-year-old nephew to
> >  one time with Cory and 'da gang - and we've done everything from 2
> >  colors to all 11, with various mixes of transparent and opaque and all
> >  other aspects to get picky about.
> >
> >  How many colors do you prefer to use? Why?
> >
> >
> >  Benjamin
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