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OSKI Rules published
I love paper and pencil games. When I was child, we in family and in school often play Gomoku, Dots and Boxes, Go or Hex. I always want invent some good word game, playable as board game.
WYPS was initially developed as paper-and-pencil game too, but I was not satisfy with it and I change rules. Quentin is very simple and it is not board game – there is no board.
Finally there is OSKI. OSKI is very simple word game. Maybe simplest. I read about similar game played on orthogonal board several years ago. But I am not able to find any mention about this game now. I hope my rules are better.
Game QUENTIN
Quentin is very simple word game. There are a little changed rules against rules published on www.littlegolem.net.
Rules:
First player wrote two letters word. Next player must add one letter and from all letters must create some new, unused word. If is not able create some new word, she can strikes some letters. Player who first strike more than 8 (or any other limit) letters is out of game. Last players win game.
Game example:
3 -players game with 4 strikes limit:
1. AM
2. MAY
3. MANY
1. MEAN (Y was strike) [3 strikes left]
2. MEANS
3. MAKES [3]
1. ASKED [2]
2. BASED [3]
3. ABLE [1]
1. TABLE
2. LATER [2]
3. CLEAR [0]
1. EARLY [1]
2. REALLY
3. CLEARLY
1. CALLED [-1] player is out of game
2. HE next player start again with new word
3. THE
2. THEY
3. TYPE [-1]
Second player won whole game.
2nd LG Championship
Second championship was very close. In final group was 11 players. As many as four players won 8 games from 10 players. For determine final order was used Sonnenborn-Berger tie-breaking system. Winner is again Cobweb from United Kingdom. Final order of main group:
1. Cobweb 16
2. r_malenfant 16
3. acr01 16
4. maraca 16
5. FatPhil 10
6. klaashaas 10
7. Friendless 8
8. Leo Green 6
9. tomletermite 6
10. Looser 4
11. Paradox 2
One of nicest moves in tournament was played between Cobweb and maraca. In game #1110410 Cobweb as black beat maraca with really incredible move:
In game #1110420 r_malenfant as white beat Cobweb with incredible move too:
Some other very hard problems from tournament:
Solutions:
Game #1110410: SORCERESS
Game #1110420: BROTHERED
Game #1110457: GALORE
Game #1110456: SOAKEN
Game #1110494: GEOIDS
Game #1110504: TAGINE
1st LG Championship finished
First LG Championship in WYPS was finished on August 11. In main group Cobweb (Great Britain) beat all hers opponents. This first championship was played on size 16 with four letters in pool.
Two interesting problems from main group.
In first game Peter Koning (finished as 3rd) as black on move beat FatPhil (4th).
In this game Looser (2nd) as White beat FatPhil.
Solutions:
Peter Koning vs FatPhil: SLIDE
FatPhil vs Looser: PIETAS