[Noisebridge-discuss] What's a non-trivial equipmentless game?

Thomas Lotze thomas.lotze at gmail.com
Thu Jan 14 07:29:20 UTC 2010


Botticelli: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botticelli_%28game%29

I play with the confirmation requirement, and only one question in each
direct round before returning to indirect rounds.  You'll want at least 4
people to play.

Ghost: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_%28game%29

Also, I definitely second Sean's recommendation of Mafia.

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:21 PM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Don French <dcfrench at gmail.com> wrote:
> > You mean blindfold chess, right?  Otherwise it requires equipment.  I
> played
> > blindfold chess with a friend once as we drove across country but it
> gives
> > me a headache to even think about it now.  George Koltanowski, the
> previous
> > editor of the SF Chronicle's chess column set an early record for playing
> 34
> > simultaneous blindfold chess games.   Of course he only won 24 of them,
> so
> > ...  Much later in 1960 at the age of 57 he played 56 simultaneous
> blindfold
> > games at 10 seconds per move and won 50 of them.  I knew George from the
> > days when he published some of my chess problems and when I asked him how
> he
> > could remember the positions of all those games, he said, "Simple, I just
> > replay the moves in my head!"
>
> ... maybe I should have specified "for intelligent adults with a
> normal stack size". o.o
>
> I have a preference for ones that can be done sensibly when walking
> down the street, by people who already know each other, but I'm
> finding the other ones interesting too, so *shrug*.
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Thomas Lotze <thomas.lotze at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Does Botticelli could under a?  It's one of my favorites of this kind,
> > personally.
> >
> > Also -- Ghost is a good one.  :)
>
> I don't know either.
>
> - Sai
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