Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Illegal Gambling

Now that “Horse of a Different Color” has been enacted, the valid Types of Sicherman Dice have changed, and everyone’s Types are currently illegal. It’s not clear to me that we can simply set everyone’s Types to the default value (I don’t see such a rule), but the new enactment provides a way to change your dice Type during your turn, so it shouldn’t be a game blocker.

posted by JonathanDark at 12 Feb 2025 02:57:00 UTC Comments (5)

Comments

Habanero:

12-02-2025 03:44:56 UTC

I think it’s alright to set them all to their defaults under a combination of

If the rules that define a game variable are amended, and some previously valid values become invalid as a consequence, any existing variables whose current values would become invalid are instead set to their starting value.

and

If a game variable has a default value but no defined starting value, then its default value should also be considered a starting value.

Habanero:

12-02-2025 03:52:04 UTC

Of course, I might be missing something

JonathanDark: Puzzler he/him

12-02-2025 04:19:16 UTC

Ah, I missed the first one, which I think does cover it. I did a search for “illegal” rather than “invalid”, so I missed it.

ais523:

12-02-2025 12:46:25 UTC

That first one’s actually <a >more recent than I expected</a> (2020), although I suspect it had been a reoccurring problem before then.

ais523:

12-02-2025 12:46:45 UTC

The URL in my previous comment was meant to go here: https://blognomic.com/archive/coping_with_changing_definitions_appendix