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Re: [pbmserv] New game: Curio



Fixed the typo.

Thanks for pointing that out to everyone Randall :)


At 07:50 PM 10/30/2008, Randall Bart wrote:
> Play: Players take turns moving one of their pieces in a straight unimpeded
> line, orthogonally or horizontally, a distance not exceeding the piece's
> visible number.


This says "orthogonally or horizontally" then there is this example:

>                     ,---,   ,---,   ,---,   ,---,   ,---,
>                    +---+|  +---+|  +---+|  +---+|  +---+|
>                    |:1:||--|:3:||--|:1:||--|:2:||--|:1:||--+
>               5  ,---,:|/,---,:|/,---,:|/,---,:|/,---,:|/ /
>                 +---+|-++---+|-++---+|-++---+|-++---+|-+ /   5
>                 |:2:||--| 3 ||--|:2:||--|:4:||--|:3:||--+
>            4   /|:::|/ /|   |/ /|:::|/ /|:::|/ /|:::|/ /
>               / +---+ / +---+ / +---+ / +---+ / +---+ /   4
>              +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
>         3  ,---,   ,---,   ,---,    /      ,---,    /
>           +---+|  +---+|  +---+|   /      +---+|   /   3
>           | 4 ||--| 4 ||--| 2 ||--+------+| 3 ||--+
>      2  ,---, |/,---, |/,---, |/,---,   ,---, |/ /
>        +---+|-++---+|-++---+|-++---+|  +---+|-+ /   2
>        | 4 ||--| 4 ||--| 1 ||--| 3 ||--| 3 ||--+
>   1   /|   |/ /|   |/ /|   |/ /|   |/ /|   |/ /
>      / +---+ / +---+ / +---+ / +---+ / +---+ /   1
>     +-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
>
>        a       b       c       d       e

Either this is an example of a diagonal move, or I don't understand this example.