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

[Mikolaj Habryn]

Have you tried playing Questions?

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Thomas Lotze <thomas.lotze at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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