Talk:Browse games
Add topicTweaking the categories[edit source]
I think a new category should be added for RX (R+X+) games; these are games that use more than the five colors in a set but less than full 6+ monochrome stashes.
Games like Flags, Color Wheel, and Autumn Ash fall into this category and are not necessarily listed correctly in this current listing. I see that you're using a template to generate the lists, but I'm not sure what template would cover these games. I do anticipate that we'll see more games that fit into this category because of the make up of the arcade. - (User:Nihilvor, 2017-Feb-8)
- Excellent suggestions! I have been scheming a bit as to how we can best represent the pyramids required in an intuitive and future-proof way. I think splitting it into set of two fields, "Trios per color" and "Number of colors", may be the best way - especially now that more people have at least 3 Trios (or more) in 10 (or 11) colors. This will also address your stash suggestion below as well as neatly covering most new games people may design. The only difficulty will be games that require partial Trios (such as caps in Volcano), however this was not clean or easy in the old nomenclature either...
- I will start laying down the foundations for such a change (we need to do something like it eventually) and post a query in the various online forums before putting it into action. Might want to try and standardize other terminology while we are at it. Thanks for providing more motivation for getting this finally done! Umjahwa (talk) 17:47, 9 February 2017 (PST)
Leaving behind the monochrome stash?[edit source]
As the "stash" is sort of "old school" language (monochrome stashes haven't been sold in years), I'm wondering if we might be best served removing that type of category from here and on the "What Can I Play" section. I'm sure that I'm not the first to think this, but I'm also not sure if we'd create more problems by modernizing. - (User:Nihilvor, 2017-Feb-8)
Number of Players[edit source]
I have added some new subpages with lists of games for each number of players up to 5, then one for 6 or more. However, it only works if both min_players and max_players is populated, and I can't work out to get it to find games that follow the guidelines and only have max_players set if it's just a single/two-player game. JorWat (talk) 07:00, 27 February 2020 (PST)
List of all subpages[edit source]
For the record, below is a list of all the pages currently found under this page
- Browse games
- Browse games/3x3 board
- Browse games/5x6 board
- Browse games/6x6 board
- Browse games/All
- Browse games/Aquarius deck
- Browse games/Assorted tokens
- Browse games/Chessboard
- Browse games/Color die
- Browse games/Colors per player
- Browse games/Complex complexity
- Browse games/Decktet
- Browse games/Dominoes
- Browse games/Fast playing time
- Browse games/Five colors
- Browse games/Five players
- Browse games/Five stashes or sets
- Browse games/Five trios per color
- Browse games/Four colors
- Browse games/Four players
- Browse games/Four sets
- Browse games/Four stashes
- Browse games/Four trios per color
- Browse games/Hex board
- Browse games/High random chance
- Browse games/High strategy depth
- Browse games/Letter tiles
- Browse games/Lightning dice
- Browse games/Long playing time
- Browse games/Low random chance
- Browse games/Low strategy depth
- Browse games/Martian coasters
- Browse games/Medium complexity
- Browse games/Medium playing time
- Browse games/Medium random chance
- Browse games/Medium strategy depth
- Browse games/No random chance
- Browse games/No strategy depth
- Browse games/One color
- Browse games/One player
- Browse games/One set
- Browse games/One stash
- Browse games/One trio per color
- Browse games/Opaque bag
- Browse games/Paper and pencil
- Browse games/Piecepack
- Browse games/Playable with Homeworlds
- Browse games/Playable with Pyramid Arcade
- Browse games/Playable with Pyramid Arcade (paired up colors)
- Browse games/Playing cards
- Browse games/Polyhedral dice
- Browse games/Pyramid die
- Browse games/Sets per player
- Browse games/Simple complexity
- Browse games/Six-sided dice
- Browse games/Six colors or more
- Browse games/Six players or more
- Browse games/Six sets or more
- Browse games/Six stashes or more
- Browse games/Six trios per color or more
- Browse games/Stashes per player
- Browse games/Tarot cards
- Browse games/Three colors
- Browse games/Three players
- Browse games/Three sets
- Browse games/Three stashes
- Browse games/Three trios per color
- Browse games/Timer
- Browse games/Treehouse die
- Browse games/Trios per color per player
- Browse games/Twin Win cards
- Browse games/Two colors
- Browse games/Two players
- Browse games/Two sets
- Browse games/Two stashes
- Browse games/Two trios per color
- Browse games/Volcano board
- Browse games/Wheel board
- Browse games/Zark City deck
Playable with Homeworlds Set[edit source]
Summary: This topic requests a category of games "Playable with Homeworlds Set" and suggests that the list of games "Playable with Pyramid Arcade" should be expanded using a criterion similar to the one that includes Martian Chess.
As I was motivated by this Facebook post [1] to write this entry, I would wish for a list of games "Playable with Homeworlds Set".
In particular, I'd like to include games that would NOT show up if you search for all games playable with (at most) 3 trios in 4 colors, such as Hextris and Branches-Twigs-and-Thorns. These games have 2-player variants that require 5 trios in 2 colors.
To make this work, my idea is to pair two colors into one (redefined) color, say (Red, Yellow) and (Green, Blue). With this pairing, you have 6 trios in 2 colors in the Homeworlds set. (Originally, this idea sprang from the observation that you can play Martian Chess with 6 trios of ANY color, effectively creating 6 trios of 1 color).
Since Martian Chess is including in the list of "Playable with Pyramid Arcade"--although Pyramid Arcade does not have 6 trios in any one color--I guess that Hextris and Branches-Twigs-and-Thorns should be included by a similar criterion, as mentioned above.
I haven't checked the list of games playable with <more than 3 and at most 6 trios> in 2 colors, which by this criterion should all be included in both lists "Playable with Homeworlds Set" and "Playable with Pyramid Arcade". (Since the former list is included in the latter, I didn't want to make a different topic relating to "Games Playable with Pyramid Arcade".)
Using this idea, the following games should probably be included in "Games Playable with Pyramid Arcade", namely games that use:
- at most 6 trios in 5 colors. (Redefine 5 colors as pairs: e.g., (Red, Orange), (Yellow, Transparent), (Green, Cyan), (Blue, Purple), (Black, White).)
- at most 9 trios in 3 colors. (Redefine 3 colors as triples: e.g., (Red, Orange, Yellow), (Green, Cyan, Blue), (Black, White, Transparent) - leaving Purple out.)
- at most 12 trios in 2 colors. (Redefine 2 colors as quintuples: e.g., one is "Rainbow" colors, the other is "Xeno" colors.)
- at most 30 trios in 1 color. (Color independent.)
Note that all games that are playable with "at most 6 trios in 4 colors" are included in "at most 6 trios in 5 colors".
Cuc (talk) 22:36, 28 February 2020 (PST)
- There are quite a few games that require "at most 6 trios in 5 colors", so I've added a page that shows them, but I believe the other categories you're suggesting are empty: there are no games that require 7, 8 or 9 trios per color (other than '1 trio per color per player' games, and they're already in the main list), and the games that require 10 trios per color need at least six colors. As for "Playable with Homeworlds Set", trying to create one search that will find both 'up to three trios of up to four colors' games and 'up to six trios of up to two colors' games is too complicated for the wiki to generate. It's also a bit too limiting a selection of pieces. Pyramid Arcade not only has pyramids, it also has cards, boards and dice; the Homeworlds box soon to be sold just has the pyramids. JorWat (talk) 04:11, 29 February 2020 (PST)