pentagram diplomacy

[Chazar]

A friend of mine pointed out how to arrange some symmetry for the 7 nation victory condition, so I updated the picture in my previous Last post in this threas to a more pleasing and more fair one, and I have also updated my comments about that picture as well as design reasons in that previous-Last post of mine.

I am interested in playing a game with such a victory condition, but I am currently involved in enough games, so I am going to ask about that later...

[Zooko]

The 2x2x2x2x2 game that we are playing (you can see it in the multiplayer games section of this forum) is really fun.

One of the teams has been all but eliminated, and an interesting consequence of this is that the two teams who were not the dead team's enemies have become ipso facto allies even though they are technically enemies. You can see why this works when you consider that neither of them can win if the other one dies *first* -- both of them have to kill their *other* enemy before they can kill that enemy. If they kill that enemy first then one of their competitors wins.

I'm pleased and amused. And it's fun.