I’ve renamed Corner Property to Corner Lot as being a little more colloquial.

I’ve made a first draught of the rules. I’ve made the cards required for play (thanks go to Ariel Seoane for helping with the art) and hope to play at tomorrow’s gamenight at SB-Boardgamers.

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• Is it just me, or does Twitter really need direct/built-in support for hashtags? #twitter #
• @brettspiel True. Is #twitter heading for an acquisition implosion as they consume their field? They have a /hard/ CS problem WRT scaling. in reply to brettspiel #
• @icheyne Not a Midnight Commander fan? in reply to icheyne #
• @brettspiel #twitter /have/ to handle scaling, which is non-feature/product-building & HARD. They only working that prob, ignore rest now? in reply to brettspiel #
• RT @neilhimself: So wrong, so wrong, so utterly, utterly wrong: http://bit.ly/HKfPE (And stupid and inconsiderate of cost/benefit ratios) #
• (Pray, pray, pray for it to be true!) RT @nprpolitics: Is Consumer Confidence Creeping Back? http://tinyurl.com/blp8bu #
• @icheyne There used to be a GTK-ish MC clone. Don’t recall the name. Still arround? I’m a CLI guy tho OS X is seductive. #linux in reply to icheyne #
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• Bugger this for a game of soldiers! Do none of the URL shortening services work with FTP protocol URLs? #web #twitter #tinyurl #annoyed #
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• @icheyne My normal world: ftp://kanga.nu/users/claw/screenshots/Desktop/JCL.Desktop.20.png Hopefully the tiny URL won’t bork it. #linux in reply to icheyne #
• Tweetdeck doesn’t recognise FTP URLs as links. #tweetdeck #
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• Go! Go! Go! GO! RT @NASA Space shuttle Discovery launched on time at 7:43 p.m.! #
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• RT @timoreilly: If we didn’t think gov xparency would turn up problems, why did we want it in the 1st place? http://bit.ly/6LQTv from @mlsif #
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• @neilhimself The URL was truncated on your retweet of mcctheater. in reply to neilhimself #
• @icheyne So long Sucker is evil? Damned right! In many ways Intrige is So Long Sucker rendered into more palatable boardgame form. #
• @toddbert Yeah, it is a vague armwave at what might be a dreamy idea in an idealised world. in reply to toddbert #
• @ingredientx Yep, that’s part of the common mythos of the game, substantiated by Nash et al. Tales abound of its use in cocktail parties. in reply to ingredientx #
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• @ingredientx I have two voice dialers (Google’s and SawWho). Both work. Neither is hands-free. I don’t believe either has headset integ. in reply to ingredientx #
• @ericries Req CTO present mult answers to probs and state cases for which each is right/wrong. Discourse makes education. CTO is educator. #
• @ericries Also, CTO can’t scale unless his staff mindshare his intelligence. If he doesn’t discuss, doesn’t educate, can’t scale. in reply to ericries #
• @ericries CTO trap of short-view optmse. Ask how could solve his scaling as eng prob? Has to see HE can solve prob & choose cost tradeoffs. in reply to ericries #
• @andrew_chen You twit your good articles, why bother with RSS? in reply to andrew_chen #
• @ericries 2nd thought: Ask CTO what is more important long-term than getting short-term answers right? When is it Okay to do it wrong? in reply to ericries #
• @icheyne Can win Intrige without every backstabbing. Up to you how to play. I’m a big fan. in reply to icheyne #
• More grace than I expected: RT @nprpolitics: Obama ‘Deserves My Silence,’ Bush Says In Speech http://tinyurl.com/c9ttbg #
• Excellent! news, we need Vivek. RT @nytimes: The Caucus: Obama’s Chief Information Officer Is Reinstated http://tinyurl.com/d6b5bc #
• RT @neilhimself: Over at http://sagerdigital.com/coraline is a cool QT movie showing what computers did on Coraline film. #
• @icheyne Bridges of Shangri La has been doing it for me lately. in reply to icheyne #
• @icheyne Tanga was dumping copies of BoSL recently. You should be able to find it cheaply. Best with 3P. in reply to icheyne #
• 1st steps, perhaps too small: RT @timoreilly: WSJ: Insurers Must Disclose Climate Exposure http://bit.ly/qWTU This is HUGE! #
• @neilhimself Such corrections to FileBy etc can be crowdsourced. You have friends who care; let them look after you. in reply to neilhimself #
• On AiG bonus silliness and intelligence: RT @planetmoney: A doozy of a blog post from Adam Davidson./CK http://snurl.com/e3kvo #
• RT @andrew_chen: extreme sheep herding. Worth watching: http://tinyurl.com/9w4o9c #

Another older file, the condensed game-oriented rules for So Long Sucker, the economic theory game developed by John Forbes Nash, Mel Hausner, Lloyd S. Shapley and Martin Shubik in 1950. It is a stunning exercise and analysis tool for applied game theory. The rules for So Long Sucker on a single page: rules.

As always, corrections and comments are welcomed.

I made this a while ago. A slightly older copy has been posted to Boardgamegeek. The collated and edited rules for the 2003 Amigo and 1995 FX Schmidt versions of Intrige¹: rules.

As always, comments and corrections are welcomed.

I’ve made an edited and formatted version of Frank Branham’s rules translation for Dirk Henn’s game Spekulation. You can find the new rules file here. Comments and corrections will be gratefully received.

Enjoy.

• @frandallfarmer I 1st read Watchmen 20+ years back & many times since. It helped form a chunk of my world view. I am…nervous. Scared. in reply to frandallfarmer #
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• @venturehacks Printers are xlation devices & there are ALWAYS losses in xlation. Multi-func printers offer more xlations and are so worse. in reply to venturehacks #
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• @boydscott (I think) pointed me at this neat collection of stop motion animation. Some excellent works. http://bit.ly/QqHRn #
• An odd challenge with Twitter: My primary interest is professional, primary activity is personal. This discord must be resolved. Identity! #
• @toddbert Yeah, thought abt split accs. Such a bother! Temptation is integrated view. Unsure how that fits with proffessional self-mktg. in reply to toddbert #
• You called regarding a quick? Plone consulting gig in SF. I’ll be up that way anyways. maybe I can help, but I can’t if you don’t email… #
• Much of yesterday was thinking about exit strategies for startups. These women’s exit strategy is far better: to LIVE! http://bit.ly/LlJxs #
• RT @planetmoney: Interesting to see how easily British say “deflation.” + “printing money” /lc http://tinyurl.com/acvs7q #
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• @toddbert In which one do you put more professional foot forward and why the character diff? There’s sharp contrast btw Twitter and FB. in reply to toddbert #
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• @toddbert A comp is the bkgrnd conv buzz in a startup. Knowing what e/one is saying/doing/thinking is key to good coordination and focus. in reply to toddbert #
• @toddbert Agreed, a msging platform w/ extreme timeliness SLAs & public broadcast. Sorta meta-Usenet built on pers filters. That’s different in reply to toddbert #
• Why are all the women in the dating-for-over-40s ads on FB clearly in their 20’s and surgically ballooned? Doh! Massage parlor anyone? #
• @raphkoster Gimme a shout if you want a hand with TweetDeck. in reply to raphkoster #
• @raphkoster Twiter is more to blame for that than TweeDeck – users have to manage their API call rates manually due to Twitter failings. in reply to raphkoster #
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• @raphkoster Might be useful. http://bit.ly/13rmog ION I’ve found Twirl to be pretty feature-eqiv to Tweetdeck, but smaller real-estate. in reply to raphkoster #
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• @toddbert Think of Twitter as a conv with a stochastic sample of an undefined crowd. It isn’t 1:1, it is 1:many which degrades to 1:1. in reply to toddbert #
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• RT @timoreilly: Introduced to the music of Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou by @mearabai http://bit.ly/DqrVI (excellent stuff) #
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The perrenial discussion of poker chips has resurfaced yet again and for odd reasons I’ve taken to fiddling with ChipTalk’s Chip Factory. It is a cute little system.

The chipset I finally came up with:

Among the design’s advantages, asides from using a moderately standard colour sequence, are that the edgespots bind to both the previous and next chip in the sequence, including wrapping around the ends of course¹. Thus the chips themselves form explicit documentation on their relative placement within the value ranking system[^2].

My normal poker chip requirement list:

• At least 7 visually distinct colours including white, red, green, black or blue
• At least 10 grams per chip (11.5 preferred – I’ve used dice/suited chips so much they feel right to me)
• Inter-chip friction important (stacking/non-slippy)
• Edge spots preferred must not interfere with chip colour recognition
• No writing on the chip (that includes no denominations)

The above set mostly match that.

Gahh! I posted the wrong image and didn’t notice. Corrected:

I played a wonderful, just wonderful, game of 18Mex. Final scores were delightfully tight: ~5,700, ~5,600, ~5,500, ~4,800. The 18xx are firmly cementing themselves as my favourite games; solid and somehow enheartening comfort-games.

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I arrived late and didn’t get much onto the table:

• Medici
• Pampas Railroads
• Cavum

Tomorrow is the second 18xx night at SB-Boardgamers. A fairly typical gamesday in all.

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• @brookscl GTD? in reply to brookscl #
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• BAP: Too late for Steel Driver, watched Supernova, sat out Agricola, played Hive & Princes of Machu Pichu (won both). Forgot to tale pics. #
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• RDBMS without a lot of the R and with relaxed integrity constraints: http://bit.ly/1DTsN Brilliant for lightly keyed datastructures. #
• Good comment thread on that last URL BTW. #
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• @jdludlow You might also consider Lehmann’s Phoenicia. The rules are borked (publisher rewrite) but it is classic Lehmann snowball. Short! in reply to jdludlow #
• @jdludlow That’s pretty decent timing for dZvZ. 180 minutes is common here. in reply to jdludlow #
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• RT @timoreilly: “…premise that correlation was more of a constant than a variable.” http://bit.ly/hdtrt The math behind the meltdown #
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• @davemcclure The jam Study sounds like a rule-of-seven result. in reply to davemcclure #
• @davemcclure Twitter is hi-speed time shifted conv; a looser-coupled no-history Usenet. Facebook is media-richer but narrow and w/ history. in reply to davemcclure #
• Politics, long term growth, recovery. Pick any one: http://bit.ly/uhsIE #
• @brooksci: I used to drive stick. 15 years later at 03:00 hours in the morning I didna remember what did what. My arms and legs did tho. #
• @brookscl I went cold turkey for ~2 years. It came flooding back. I didn’t know why i was doing e/g I did, but I was winning! #
• @brookscl Funny really. Had to figure out why it was working as I watched myself do it. Uhhh, because! #
• I think I like Twirl more than Tweetdeck. Smaller. Denser. Less obtrusive. Need to play more. #
• Stunning: RT @raphkoster: Lovely: http://www.vimeo.com/3365942 #
• @icheyne Gwibbber eh? Nope, I’ll look at it. Thanks. in reply to icheyne #
• Zelazny left big inspiring footprints: http://tinyurl.com/626k7k #
• @timoreilly Stuff that matters: Mortality and resources: How to build next frontier so both can sustainably benefit? Otherwise bad zero-sum in reply to timoreilly #
• @judell The network is the human. in reply to judell #
• Job searching is too damn stressful (and fun)! Adrenaline rush performance. Another one down, next round to be scheduled. Nice problems. #
• ‘Tis the square root of Xmas. Nerdigras. (@timoreilly, @gnat): http://tinyurl.com/bkyfqp #
• Doug Purdy’s info-systems dream defined in terms of discrete use-case qualities: http://tinyurl.com/d6fl92 #
• Muddle & Go Nowhere. Topical name for this economy. Nearly used M&GN in Muck & Brass & kinda wish I had. Charming: http://bit.ly/hCJ5x #
• @neilhimself Declare! Dictate! “Stop here!” Bit late now. in reply to neilhimself #
• Maps to tabletop too. RT @andrew_chen: GReader share: What is your game design style? http://tinyurl.com/br8sh7 #