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| Friday |
the Eighteenth of July, 2003 |
Silence, please, for the
singing Triffid. If they made a tacky rubber
plaque-mounted version of this, then I might not actually buy
it, but I'd at least refrain from removing the batteries and
burning it, for a while.
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With belated obviousness, the Maobot can
now play Bartok
(which is more or less the same as Mao, except that newly-created
rules are declared rather than kept secret), as well as a slightly
more canonical version of Eights/Uno.
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| Thursday |
the Seventeenth |
Behold the Maobot,
a robotic Javascript Mao opponent which is able to construct crude,
slightly-mutating Mao rules and challenge a human opponent to guess
them. Half intended as a way to initiate the uninitiated (as with
most things, the best way to understand a game is to play it), half
as an idle, infuriating exercise for those who already know the
game. Have fun.
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| Wednesday |
the Sixteenth |
A self-confident subject line from humanity's evil Viagra-spam
overlords: "You'll never learn."
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| Good idea, good timing, good pun -
piertopier.net
is providing wireless Internet access between the West Pier and Palace Pier
on Brighton beach. Get a load of random, encrypted data burnt subtly into your
tan, this summer. [via Chrissy]
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Levez has sent me off on
The Fool's
Errand, a fearsome collection of
lo-fi logic and lateral-thinking puzzles from the 80s, strung
together with Carrollian prose in a land of bickering Tarot
characters. Some of it's a bit pedestrian, some of it's
completely evil,
but you're allowed a fairly free reign in the order which you
approach things.
And at one point you get to play a simple card game with the Major Arcana,
against the computer - someone's
typed the rules up, and they're probably the third-best
thing you can do with a deck of Tarot cards (behind Tarot Mao and
Gnostica).
Interestingly, Fool's Errand only gives you very vague rules for this
game (which it calls Thoth), and leaves you to work the rest out for
yourself - I've always dismissed versus-the-computer puzzle Mao as being
a bit too dull, but maybe there's some mileage in it after all...
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