The Sphinx's Lair

12:51 AM

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We can come day or night In darkness or light. Sometimes in pairs, sometimes more We sneak up on you as you move for the door We can dance we can jump we can bounce and we can roll We can put on a show but we won't have control Who are we?

Eric Tressler

2:23 AM

If anyone is around, I am going on a trip tomorrow, and I get very bored riding in trains. I have a book, but I was wondering if anyone knows of some puzzles that can be printed out and could feasibly last a few hours. Something that is not standard sudoku/etc, but preferably logic and not wordplay

thecoder16

i'm assuming you wouldn't want normal grid logic puzzles? or would you?

Eric Tressler

Oh, probably not. I have those on my phone, so unless it's a particularly clever one...

Alconja

You could finish paramesis' unsolved puzzles...

thecoder16

we should have a month on puzzling dedicated to puzzles like those.

Eric Tressler

@Alconja that's not a bad idea

it looks like I would be better off having references at hand trying to solve those ... I don't even understand people's comments

okay, I do understand the comments, but I'm not familiar with (for example) Yin Yang puzzles, or Corral

Wen1now

2:33 AM

What about designing your own puzzle?

Eric Tressler

that's a good idea too

Eric Tressler

2:45 AM

thanks

Destructible Lemon

2:58 AM

@EricTressler try and figure out that homeworlds monopoly thing?

I'm gonna try out using gimp to make a card template for a thing

Eric Tressler

@DestructibleLemon I don't know the rules, even. Is homeworlds a board game?

Destructible Lemon

sort of

but there is no board except for a flat playing surface like a table

I believe in the question there is a link to the rules?

Wen1now

Oh, btw, thanks for introducing me to that game

It's pretty good

Destructible Lemon

No problem

It is my favourite game from the pyramid arcade set... except for some rule confusion

Anyway, I was thinking of making a customisable card game but with perfect information or something

or at least no luck

except for who starts first and such

The problem is is that the things I want to put on the cards differ greatly in size... however it will only be digital I think.... unless you print them on paper or something

Eric Tressler

That will be a very big project

Wen1now

3:08 AM

Speaking of cards

Does anybody have any tips on printing your own card set?

Destructible Lemon

I think there are websites where you can get them printed

but I've never done it

@EricTressler It's gonna be SROMG: the CCG

anyway, the basic idea is there's no buying cards crap, so it's mostly a level playing field, except for obviously skill differences. You can place whatever cards in your hand that you like (up to a card limit), except you can only have one card of each type

Eric Tressler

Does that stand for "Sorry, oh my god"?

Destructible Lemon

no

mezzacotta.net/garfield

it might be SROMCG or something instead though

Eric Tressler

Oh, ok

Destructible Lemon

this is one of mine

Eric Tressler

3:14 AM

I saw it a day or two ago (I think in TNB)

Alconja

@Wen1now There's places like this where you can print custom cards... Haven't had any experience with them though...

thecoder16

my current project is creating poker on discord, and then i will progress to enigmatic-puzzle on discord with your only interaction with a bot

i think it would be interesting

Destructible Lemon

So I'm just thinking about how I should format the cards if the size varies so wildly in these comics

I guess I can make 4 basic types of cards: regular Garfield strip size, sunday sized, single panel, and overly large.

also maybe a 5th miscellaneous category

however the fourth SROMG strip is almost a regular strip, but also too large vertically from the final panels... not ideal

Wen1now

@Alconja That seems like a nice website, thanks!

Destructible Lemon

3:30 AM

not secure for me...

also I don't know but maybe check a couple different websites for price comparison possibly?

Wen1now

What do you mean

Destructible Lemon

it tells me i have an insecure connection

however it might not be the site

Wen1now

Oh right

What are you supposed to search for

I've tried in the past but the only thing I got was 'buy custom-made football trading cards' and other pointless junk

Destructible Lemon

card printing?

custom cards didn't work?

Wen1now

@DestructibleLemon The people who've made the sites are pretty skillful and do stuff like 'make your game first, then we'll give you a price quote'

Destructible Lemon

3:36 AM

makeplayingcards.com

as something else

although I'm not sure what kind of cards you want

Wen1now

Just plain playing cards

Okay, I mean custom playing cards, but pretty much the same as plain playing cards

Eric Tressler

"custom playing cards" gives a lot of relevant results

@Wen1now think of all of the promotional playing card sets you see... it's really common for people to want decks of custom cards. The price should be accordingly pretty reasonable

@Wen1now what is the theme?

Wen1now

Hmm

Well... currently it's unthemed

Destructible Lemon

4:17 AM

Do you have a plan for what you are making, or is it just "it'd be cool to have a custom set of playing cards"

Wen1now

Yeah, I do

Actually, I've made a pen-and-paper version and it was enjoyable

Destructible Lemon

oh!

basic rule description?

Wen1now

It's actually pretty simplistic

To begin, everybody gets five cards

Each card has a level

On your turn, you draw a card and may place a card in the middle facing towards yourself

(this is still turn 1): each player may now either place a card on top of the previous card, with a larger level (e.g if the previous card had level 5 then the next player can play a level 6 card, but not a level 4 or 5 card)

Or they can pass. Say there are N players. Then after N consecutive passes, the top card on the stack is 'activated' and its action is used (e.g 'Draw another card')

Then the round continues from before

The turn ends when there are no cards left in the pile

Then the next player begins their turn

Eric Tressler

muzen.com/greatgame.html

Wen1now

What is this

Eric Tressler

4:26 AM

It's the great game of absolution and redemption

read "The play" and "The end of the game" at the bottom

Wen1now

Is it supposed to load really slowly

It seems like a difficult game to win

Eric Tressler

I think it's funny

Alright, I guess I should go. I'll be back in a few days, maybe a little bit from a hotel in the meantime. 'night

Wen1now

Okay bye

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Wen1now

Hey, has anybody heard of the genre 'meta'

Alconja

5:05 AM

@Wen1now As in metapuzzles?

Wen1now

5:16 AM

No... as in a game genre, called 'meta'. I tried googling it but didn't get anything

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