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Games that can be played with (or have been adapted to) the piecepack system
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The piecepack set is a very versatile set of components that can be used to play over 100 original games. It's also in the Public Domain, so anybody can make and sell piecepack sets and there're also free pdfs that can be printed to make a very inexpensive set: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/2860Recently I downloaded the game "Sumo" for the palm (a recreation of En Garde which I've never played) and out of curiosity decided to try adapting it for piecepack. It mostly works, and so I got the idea for this list... Most of the items of this list are games that have already been adapted with links to their piecepack wiki page. The rest are just ideas with small explanations. Feel free to add your own ideas to the list. By the way, I've tried to avoid the classic abstract games that can be played or adapted for the piecepack (chess, ludo, checkers, etc...): Enjoy! Edit: I've reordered the list by names to make it more useful... Update: The latest piecepack contest, Good Portsmanship ( http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/GoodPortsmanship ) has brought 14 new games adapted from existing games. Check the link to see all the games. As the rules become available I'll be adding them to this list.
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The items in this GeekList are ordered alphabetically by title
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Posted Thu Nov 30, 2006 8:40 pm
Edited Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:41 pm
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Requirements:
11 suits of piecepack tiles (any 64 tiles)
standard set of 32 Chess pieces, 16 in each color
the rules
Set up the piecepack tiles face-up in an 8×8 grid. You can't use the quartered backside of the tiles, because you need to be able to slide individual spaces.
As always, if you try the game out, and you like it, please support the designer by purchasing a copy!
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Board Game: Carrom
[Average Rating:7.02 Overall Rank:514]
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To play this game, you need two piecepack sets. Each player takes a set of 8 coins of the same number. So for example: one player takes all 2's and another one takes all 5's.
I imagine it can be a bit tricky, since it's a stacking game and the coins aren't that big.
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Board Game: Chess
[Average Rating:7.05 Overall Rank:218]
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I guess lots of card based games can be adapted in some way for the piecepack. I love (and own) this game and maybe with 2 different piecepacks (8 suits) a similar game could be played where each suit is a creature. Use the tiles as number cards, and the coins to bet. Of course, the same could be done with two different sets of cards...
But anyway, I don't think this one would be even half as fun without the themed cards...
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http://www.ludism.org/ppwiki/DragonsHoard
I was just reading the rules to this game, and having played neither, I can't be sure, but this game seems to be based on DQ. At least it seems very similar. It needs an Icehouse set, but it may be played with other tokens in different colors...
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Use a board made of 3x3 tiles (playing on the intersections) and use two suits of coins. To distinguish coins, just point them in opposite directions and if in doubt, check the suit side.
The fact that this game uses pieces numbered 1 to 6 is no problem because what is important is that the die numbers correspond to the pieces.
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This is the one that got me thinking about making this list.
I use the coins as the board. 4 of a suit in each extreme and then 6 of each of the other suits in the middle so that there are 4 parts to the track for a total of 20 spaces. We used this to simplify scoring so that the most advanced player scores 1, 2,3 or 4 points.
Use the tiles as cards. There are 24 tiles so that's 4 of each number (0 to 5). If you've got another piecepack set laying around, you can get 6 of each (which is what the game sumo has i believe).
I still have to test and maybe change the lenght and scoring, but so far it is fun...
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Board Game: Evade
[Average Rating:5.68 Overall Rank:3990]
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Board Game: Fan Tan
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Piecepack Fan Tan
Game No.: 41227
Ancient chinese gambling game.
Basic mechanic involves betting on:
the remainder of "four dice rolled divided by four".
Maths students should recognise it as "modulus 4".
Quick and easy to learn.
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You will need two or more piecepack sets: use the pawns as the pins and a die as the ball.
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You need 11 tiles (grid side up), a null coin for each player and one piecepack die. Pawns can be optional to remind you of the suit you're playing with. Place it in front of you.
* Build a "race track" with the 11 tiles with a clear start and a clear finish tile (so no circle).
* Coins start suit up. Place them near the starting tile.
* Rolling ace-5 means moving 1-5 spaces.
* Rolling a null means turning over your coin to its null side.
* When all coins are nulls, you have to swap two coins every time a null is rolled.
What suit will be at the finish first?
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Use 9 tiles to form a 6x6 board. Use the coins from two different piecepack sets. One player takes all nulls and the other one all aces. Determine which set will represent the good ghosts and which one the evil ghosts. I guess it plays a little less smooth since you would either have to remember what ghost is where, or you have to check the status of the coins once in a while to make sure you're doing the right thing.
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Board Game: Gyges
[Average Rating:7.35 Overall Rank:1801]
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Requirements:
2 suits of piecepack tiles (any 9 tiles)
4 suits of piecepack coins (any four 1, 2, and 3)
the rules
Set up the square tiles face-down to form the 6×6 board.
As always, if you try the game out, and you like it, please support the designer by purchasing a copy!
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Board Game: Hive
[Average Rating:7.41 Overall Rank:82]
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Use 2 suits per player (and remove one of tile from a suit). Just agree on which tiles correspond to each insect and go. You can place the square tiles forming an hexagonal like grid.
For example for player using Suns and Moons: 1 Suns = Queen, Blanks = Beetles, 2s = Spiders, 3,4,5 Suns = Ants, 3,4,5 Moons = Hoppers.
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Board Game: Hyena
[Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]
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Piecepack Hyena is a port of the ancient african race/chase game, Hyena (or Hyena Chase).
piecepack link: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/41922
Hyena, the game that piecepack Hyena is 'ported' from, is of unknown age from Africa.
In the 1920s, anthropologists, explorers and adventurers found a curious spiral-tracked game being played by the Baggara Arabs of the Sudan: Li'b el Merafib (The Hyena Game).
The board was often drawn in the sand, with players using any objects available as pawns. It is a fairly basic race game, with an elimination element once the first player has finished.
Villagers head towards a well, camping overnight on the way. Once they have reached the well they return via the same trail. When the first villager has reached the village, hyena begins chasing the remaining villagers, beginning from the village.
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Board Game: Joust
[Average Rating:4.88 Unranked]
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Board Game: Kono
[Average Rating:5.19 Unranked]
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Board Game: Mana
[Average Rating:6.65 Overall Rank:3094]
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Requirements:
12 suits of piecepack tiles (any 72 tiles, or 1-3 in each of the 12 suits)
2 suits of piecepack coins (any 5 of each)
2 suits of piecepack dice
1 stone or some other distinctive piece
the rules
If you want to use 72 tiles, stack them face-down one, two, or three tall to match the spaces on the board in the picture. If you're using 1-3 in each of the suits, then place the ones where there are + in the picture, the twos where there are #, and the threes for the triple spaces.
The ronin are represented by the coins, suit-side up, the daimyo by the corresponding die.
The stone represents the mana.
As always, if you try the game out, and you like it, please support the designer by purchasing a copy!
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Posted Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:15 pm
Also I don't think that playing an existing commercial game on a piecepack set is a problem because the experience usually can't be as nice as with the real components, so people that like a game will end up buying it anyway... but also, some of the adaptations are different enough that the original game is more of an influence...