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

[Benjamin Kleber]

Eeyore,

Do you mean that adding a fifth color adds more pieces to use in the
"5 flavors" or in the "15 more pieces" way? I usually play with two
stashes of each color, you see, so I'm trying to figure out which
angle you're going at it from.


Benjamin

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Elliott C. Evans <eeyore at ee0r.com> wrote:
>
>  Andrew wrote:
>  > (But I am of the contingent that thinks that four colors makes a
>  > nice Zendo set. Really, I think you could reduce it to three
>  > colors without sacrificing any fun rules.)
>
>  On the left hand, expanding it to five colors provides significantly
>  more pieces for the students to use, without greatly increasing the
>  complexity of the game. I do think adding colors makes the game more
>  complex, which translates to "more difficult" for many players.
>
>  In terms of rules, either the master's rule uses color or it does
>  not. If the rule does not use color then adding more stashes to the
>  pool adds more distracting colors. If the rule uses color, adding
>  more stashes to the pool makes it more difficult to figure out
>  which colors have effect.
>
>  --
>  Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans
>  eeyore at ee0r.com
>
>
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