Thursday, March 31, 2011

Proposal: 1946 Scrabble Ruleset (II)

Timed out 13 votes to 1. Enacted by Kevan.

Adminned at 03 Apr 2011 00:08:46 UTC

Add a new rule to the ruleset, entitled Trails:

Each player has a Trail, which is tracked in the GNDT. A player’s trail is a sequence of up to seven letters, with each letter being the first letter of a station that player has recently visited. Every a player’s moves their piece to a new station, that player must immediately add the first letter of the new station to the end of their trail; similarly, if a player ever moves another player’s piece to a new station, they must update that player’s trail in the same way. If this would cause the trail to contain more than seven letters, the oldest letter is removed.

When a trail contains a certain combination of letters in order, the player who possesses it may undertake certain specified actions. When such an action is undertaken the letters used to undertake it are removed from the trail. These are detailed below:

* BOAT. If a player has a trail that contains the word BOAT, then they may immediately move their piece to any station that has a boat next to its name on the map.
* UNLOCK. If a player has a trail that includes the word UNLOCK, they my cause one locked station to no longer be locked. To do this they must make a post to the blog stating that the station has become unlocked; the station is considered to be unlocked from the moment that the post is visible on the blog, but an admin should change the ruleset or gamestate to reflect this change as soon as is practically possible.

Delete the second paragraph of rule 2.2, and add the following as a new rule, entitled Locked Stations:

A player may never place their piece on a locked station. If a player’s move would require them to do so then they must instead place their piece Off the Board.

The following stations are locked:

Mornington Crescent
Oxford Circus
Kings Cross St. Pancras
Embankment

Comments

Winner:

31-03-2011 22:30:58 UTC

for Somewhat against the unlock, though

Florw:

31-03-2011 22:40:06 UTC

against The obvious possibility of unlocking Mornington Crescent seems rather boring… I don’t know, could just be me.

Subrincinator:

31-03-2011 23:04:53 UTC

for I acknowledge Florw, but we can mess up people’s moves easily enough.  Since they can’t rearrange their tiles, if they get one letter out of place they have to start from scratch.  So it’s actually a laborious way to win.

And if this becomes a rule, we can add rules with amusing results for amusing words.

Saakara:

31-03-2011 23:07:42 UTC

for

Roujo: he/him

31-03-2011 23:16:38 UTC

for inb4 a movement scam makes it trivial to build the UNLOCK sequence =P

Chivalrybean:

01-04-2011 00:28:17 UTC

imperial

udqbpn:

01-04-2011 03:48:08 UTC

for

Kevan: he/him

01-04-2011 05:51:39 UTC

for Although I don’t see how we can “mess up people’s moves easily enough” - at the moment, there is no way to move another player’s piece. But we’d have six days before anyone could actually win with this.

Josh: Observer he/they

01-04-2011 06:38:41 UTC

As far as I can make out, there’s actually only one route that’s currently possible for UNLOCK - Uxbridge, North Ealing, Leicester Square, Oval, Camden Town, Kentish Town - but it should be trivial to come up with rules or Oddities that allow for it to be disrupted.

Ely:

01-04-2011 06:58:59 UTC

for

Purplebeard:

01-04-2011 07:17:26 UTC

for

Bucky:

01-04-2011 13:51:55 UTC

Do I hear some stones grinding?

for

Darknight: he/him

01-04-2011 22:25:33 UTC

for

Travis:

03-04-2011 01:50:54 UTC

for