Re: Fwd: [pbmserv-dev] Toot and Otto

["Randall Bart" <barticus@att.net>]

BGG is back up.

This is based on what I see at BGG, so a little is conjecture:

1) The board is 6 wide and 4 tall (smaller than Connect 4).
2) Each player gets 6 T's and 6 O's.
3) On your turn you pick a T or an O and drop it in a column.  It falls to the lowest unoccupied space (just like Connect 4).
4) First player to spell his name (TOOT or OTTO) wins.
5) If you spell the other player's name without spelling your own, you lose.
6) If you spell both names at once, you win, eg, with this board, whoever drops an O into the empty space wins:
      O T T _ O T

There's an alternate rule set for "younger players".  I think we can ignore that.

Implementation on gamerz.net:

The board size of the published edition looks like the smallest practical size.  We could make that variable.  Giving each player an equal number of O's and T's appears to be a physical limitation, unnecessary in a computer implementation.  The move notation looks pretty obvious; the move above would be O4.

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  -------------- Original message from Douglas Zander <darthdoug_1999@yahoo.com>: --------------


> The website seems to be unavailable.  Can you give me the rules of "TOOT and
> OTTO"?  I have written a game that follows the rules you gave below.  My
> question is, what if the player trying to spell "TOOT" accidentally spells
> "OTTO"?  does the other player win?  (That is what I programmed)
> 
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> --- Randall Bart  wrote:
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> > From: "Randall Bart" 
> > To:  pbmserv-dev 
> > Subject: [pbmserv-dev] Toot and Otto
> > Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 09:22:56 +0000
> > 
> > I found a game on BGG called Toot and Otto:
> > http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/19530
> > It seems like this game would be easy to implement on this server.  It's very
> > much like Connect4, except rather than dropping a piece of your color you
> > drop a T or an O (your choice).  One player tries to spell TOOT, one player
> > tries to spell OTTO.
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