shall we play a game?

[ciphergoth]

skx, selectnone, the best my brain has come up with is that we should play some sort of non-computer-type game. If anyone else is at a loose end this afternoon or has any better suggestions, I'm eager to hear them...

I shall be going to .conception tonight.

Update: Which Rabbit turned out to be a very good game both times I've played it - getting together some smart people to play this seems like a good idea to me. I have texted both the people who've expressed an interest so far.

Comments

[booklectica]

You should play Which Rabbit...

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

A truly excellent suggestion, thank-you!

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

"?"

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

"Which Rabbit" is essentially "Nomic" with all the unnecessary complication stripped out. Rules (as I play it):

1. Play passes to the left.
   
2. Each player starts their turn by proposing a change to the rules.
   
3. Changes are passed by unanimous agreement.
   
4. All rules are mutable, including this one.
   

Incidentally my flat is busy today so it'll have to be one of yours. Ideally we'd find a fourth player too...

[booklectica]

That's a good explanation. I've never managed to explain it properly until people had already started playing.

Brief history: The game was invented by adjectivemarcus, ajva and myself, and named Which Rabbit through an elaborately random process. It varies a lot depending on who's playing, from silly to funny to complex to pure gameplay.

Suddenly I want to play it again. Hmm.

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Could be interesting...

Our flat should be okay (we have cats!), but I could do with going out shopping, and indeed lunching, at some point first.
Lunching could be done in parallel with Rabitting, and I can easily apply a procrastination factor to shopping, plunging it deep into the heart of tomorrow.

Top buzzer, 20 Grange Loan

[gnomatron.livejournal.com]

curious; what happens if you change 4 to read "immutable"? You then have a paradox in the rules; oh, no, hang on, does "mutability" cover rule creation? i.e. if rules are immutable, can they still be created, or, indeed, destroyed?

anyway, see you at .conception; I'm taking requests now for my little chunks of the night; comments somewhere on gnomatron will get to me.

[skx.livejournal.com]

 Sorry I ended up tied up for most of this afternoon due to this this MS SQL WOrm.

 Seeing massive packet loss all over the place - and my network monitoring software was going mental.

[selectnone.livejournal.com]

Ah, that'd be the thing that meant I had to rewrite my webcam page :)

[skx.livejournal.com]

Sounds like it.

To be honest things were worst this morning; towards this afternoon things were getting back on track.

[alienspacebat.livejournal.com]

It has to be Mao, but I cant tell you how to play

[atommickbrane.livejournal.com]

I skim-read this as White Rabbit and ph34r3d you had some frightening Jefferson Airplane themed games up your sleeves.

The best non-pooter game as any fule kno is of course MURDER IN THE DARK.

(NB I am feverish today).

which rabbit?

[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

Never heard of it, though I've played (and own a copy of) Flux(1), which is a card game of ever changing rules. I've always been partial to Chez Geek(2) and Give me the Brain (3).

But it sounds like this game requires no props at all - what would an instance of it sound like?

Val, making her first ever Livejournal reply

1) looney labs - ever changing rules and goals
2) steve jackson games - a game of group houses
3) cheapass games - zombies in a fast food restaurant

Re: which rabbit?

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

hello and welcome!

It was invented by adjectivemarcus, though in practice similar games have been played for a while. Props are a good idea: in the games I've played, we've collected some props we thought might come in handy (cards, pen and paper, playing tokens etc) before starting the game, and they were indeed useful.

1) I know it, but I'm not a fan. AFAICT things basically seem to change randomly until someone suddenly, randomly wins.

2) Don't know it

3) On holiday last year I got addicted to Starbase Jeff, which is an excellent four-player Cheapass Game.