I really enjoyed this video! Thank you so much for putting these together. TwixT has been on my list to add to my abstracts someday. PÜNCT is another bridge connection game that I have enjoyed.
Love the show. Who knew the hobby had such history. Did anyone else see the beginnings of Ticket to Ride? With it's connections theme,a train game was the perfect scenario for an evolution
New subscriber here (from Denmark). I like the style of your videos, and this was a very interesting video. I'm a mathematician that enjoys board games and likes history. I know something about some of the mathematicians you mentioned (and about Hein's invention of Hex), but the rest was new to me. Also, at the moment I don't have anyone to play games with, so channels like yours is a good way to keep thinking about board games 🙂
I love these videos so much. I just put a small order in on your store as well which I'm happy about. Always like seeing The Game of Y come up in a video, that's a brilliant one.
Seeing the local variant of the pen & paper "Don't Fence Me In" aka: Dots and Boxes/Dots and Crosses/and once referred to me as "Farmer in the Dell," I'm assured you do plenty of due diligence research and know your games. As a thirty year veteran of pc adventure games, though, I should address the significance of the 'Tower of Hanoi' puzzle. I love that thing, as I readily understand what must be done. Most modern video gamers disagree. This one puzzle is the bane of videogame players. It shows up, time and again. The only worse fate is the dreaded "sliding tiles" puzzle, aka: The "15 Puzzle." (One of few puzzles that allows itself to be configured into an unsolvable state.)
Ah, puzzles. Wonder if you would share an opinion on this: When does a puzzle cross over into the realm of "solo game?" Have a look here: ua-cam.com/video/jQAw1RtBbqA/v-deo.html
Original game designs: 22 so far (I have about that many "in development" as well.) The Peg Pastimes series are all public domain games, but I've designed the artwork and packaging for all of them (58 so far, and 8 more currently in prototype form). The published games are all on our NewVenture website, as well as a few other online retailers. Thanks for asking!
Thanks for promoting my favorite game! The early version of Y was on a plain triangular board. Each corner cell was adjacent to two other cells. The board you show is the Kadon version, which was published much later. Each corner of a Kadon board is adjacent to three other points. These are significantly different games IMO. I took that photo BTW (and placed it in the public domain.) There is some debate as to whether Nash truly invented Hex independently from Piet Hein. The book you mention, Hex the Complete Story, discusses this. IMO the book sort of dances around the topic, but the evidence is clear that Nash did not invent Hex on his own. I hope you do a video on Hex also. I am grateful you correctly describe the standard rules, including the swap rule (also called the pie rule) and link rearrangement. Draws are indeed rare but they do happen. Further info on the pie rule can be found in Wikipedia. Besides Felsberger in Switzerland, GP games in Japan also currently sells Twixt sets. You showed the set in your video. It's the blue box with a blue board and white versus black pieces. It's available on the Japanese Amazon site for about $40.
I really enjoyed this video! Thank you so much for putting these together. TwixT has been on my list to add to my abstracts someday. PÜNCT is another bridge connection game that I have enjoyed.
Videos like this is why I subscribed..
Now I have to buy TwixT.
Thanks
Love the show. Who knew the hobby had such history. Did anyone else see the beginnings of Ticket to Ride? With it's connections theme,a train game was the perfect scenario for an evolution
New subscriber here (from Denmark). I like the style of your videos, and this was a very interesting video.
I'm a mathematician that enjoys board games and likes history. I know something about some of the mathematicians you mentioned (and about Hein's invention of Hex), but the rest was new to me.
Also, at the moment I don't have anyone to play games with, so channels like yours is a good way to keep thinking about board games 🙂
Glad to be here for ya! Thanks for watching.
Wow, I just discovered your channel through this video! It was so calming, informative, and the visuals were so clear! Great vid, thank you!
Thanks!
Awesome collection of 3M Bookshelf Games there. I’ve not ten myself so far. They’re like a time capsule back to the 1960’s and early 1970’s.
I currently have two copies, both 3M versions, one in a red box and the other black.
I love these videos so much. I just put a small order in on your store as well which I'm happy about. Always like seeing The Game of Y come up in a video, that's a brilliant one.
this was a fantastic video 🥺 a very captivating story about a game ive known about but havent thought twice of before 🥺
Interesting game, interesting video!
Great video!
Fun history lesson, great structure to it.
The history of TwixT got a little weird a few years ago, when someone claimed to have acquired the rights to put out a new edition.
Seeing the local variant of the pen & paper "Don't Fence Me In" aka: Dots and Boxes/Dots and Crosses/and once referred to me as "Farmer in the Dell," I'm assured you do plenty of due diligence research and know your games.
As a thirty year veteran of pc adventure games, though, I should address the significance of the 'Tower of Hanoi' puzzle.
I love that thing, as I readily understand what must be done. Most modern video gamers disagree.
This one puzzle is the bane of videogame players. It shows up, time and again.
The only worse fate is the dreaded "sliding tiles" puzzle, aka: The "15 Puzzle." (One of few puzzles that allows itself to be configured into an unsolvable state.)
Ah, puzzles. Wonder if you would share an opinion on this: When does a puzzle cross over into the realm of "solo game?" Have a look here: ua-cam.com/video/jQAw1RtBbqA/v-deo.html
Alex Randolph has published 129 games. How many have you published David?
Original game designs: 22 so far (I have about that many "in development" as well.) The Peg Pastimes series are all public domain games, but I've designed the artwork and packaging for all of them (58 so far, and 8 more currently in prototype form). The published games are all on our NewVenture website, as well as a few other online retailers. Thanks for asking!
Isn't this the guy who wrote game of thrones?
Thanks for promoting my favorite game!
The early version of Y was on a plain triangular board. Each corner cell was adjacent to two other cells. The board you show is the Kadon version, which was published much later. Each corner of a Kadon board is adjacent to three other points. These are significantly different games IMO. I took that photo BTW (and placed it in the public domain.)
There is some debate as to whether Nash truly invented Hex independently from Piet Hein. The book you mention, Hex the Complete Story, discusses this. IMO the book sort of dances around the topic, but the evidence is clear that Nash did not invent Hex on his own. I hope you do a video on Hex also.
I am grateful you correctly describe the standard rules, including the swap rule (also called the pie rule) and link rearrangement. Draws are indeed rare but they do happen. Further info on the pie rule can be found in Wikipedia.
Besides Felsberger in Switzerland, GP games in Japan also currently sells Twixt sets. You showed the set in your video. It's the blue box with a blue board and white versus black pieces. It's available on the Japanese Amazon site for about $40.