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GeekList: Games you admire more than you enjoy
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
Christopher Mendes
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A great concept game. The designer wanted to come up with a game that was easy for humans to play but hard for computers. I guess when your main focus it something like that, we cannot blame the designer if the game is not super-fun
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I and many other players do find the game to be super-fun.
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  • Posted Wed Mar 28, 2012 3:06 pm
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BTW the game was not intended to be "easy for humans" but rather easier for humans than computers, i.e. the opposite of chess. It's still quite interestingly challenging for humans too, which was also intended!

Unless by "easy for humans" you mean easy to learn the rules, as opposed to easy to play well. But then chess and many other games are "easy for humans" in that sense.
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  • Posted Wed Mar 28, 2012 8:59 pm
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Dolus wrote:
I and many other players do find the game to be super-fun.


Haha, was hoping you would see this devil
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  • Posted Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:50 pm
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1awesomeguy wrote:
Dolus wrote:
I and many other players do find the game to be super-fun.


Haha, was hoping you would see this devil


Of course! I'm stalking you, after all.
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  • Posted Thu Mar 29, 2012 5:54 pm
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GeekList: Meatball Madness Round 1
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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A new breed of abstract, as deep as chess but without the rote learning of strategies and tactics, they say.

Why oh why didn't they make the proper edition easier to differentiate pieces?
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I'm provisionally taking Arimaa because it seems more interesting to me right now, even though I've not played it yet, and have played and once enjoyed Stone Age, but it was a game I quickly grew tired of and it holds pretty much no appeal to me anymore.
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  • Posted Tue Mar 20, 2012 10:29 pm
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FWIW, I spent fifteen or twenty minutes at the Arimaa site last night and learned how to play. Also learned how to pronounce the name of the game (I would've thought the last syllable was stressed due to the double letter, but I guess it's not).
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  • Posted Thu Mar 22, 2012 4:41 pm
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Im also making my own set. We should start trying some geeklists for our weekly discussions based just around one game or a set of games that are similar, and have us try them out with a weeks notice...
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I would still probably pick Stone Age in real life, but I'm voting for Arimaa because Fritz just writes so well...

What a compliment! That would be like me voting for caviar over pizza on the basis of some well-written food column, even though I personally think pizza tastes better. (In all honesty, I would vote for pizza no matter what anyone wrote on the subject of caviar.) I almost feel guilty for skewing the vote here. Indeed, I only contributed to the thread at all because Patrick's comment made me hope he could be persuadable. If not for his justification of his vote, I would never have tried to stand in the way of a eurogame winning a popularity contest over an abstract.

Patrick Carroll wrote:
FWIW, I spent fifteen or twenty minutes at the Arimaa site last night and learned how to play. Also learned how to pronounce the name of the game (I would've thought the last syllable was stressed due to the double letter, but I guess it's not).

The pronunciation chosen by Omar Syed is especially ironic given that the spelling of Arimaa is based on the name of his son Aamir. In "Aamir", the first vowel sound is both long and accented; for consistency the last vowel sound in "Arimaa" should be be long and accented. The fact that it isn't goes to show that Omar doesn't understand why his own son's name is spelled the way it is spelled.
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  • Posted Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:20 pm
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ARIMMA IS THROUGH TO MEET TICKET TO RIDE
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  • Posted Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:23 am
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GeekList: Meatball Madness (Preliminary)
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
George Leach
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I've been playing this again recently. It's wonderful through having a nice ebb and flow of gameplay, the position of every piece on the board becomes relevant in any reasonably close game. The game has good clarity while being deep and (so far) being strategically open.

It also offers the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new lifestyle abstract. The opponents are also fairly new to the game and frequently developing their level of play. The level of play is noticeably different year on year. Put some time in now and you might find yourself World Champion of what will become a very long lasting abstract.
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Jugular wrote:
It also offers the opportunity to get in on the ground floor of a new lifestyle abstract.


This has been one of the most important reasons I've come to prefer modern abstracts to the classics: the more level playing field among my opponents. Both of my brothers studied Chess, and I don't stand a chance against them.
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GeekList: An A-Z list of abstract strategy/tactic games
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
Simon Blome
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A is Arimaa.
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  • Posted Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:53 pm
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GeekList: New to Your Kids February 2012 - the best games you've played for the first time with children (and why you think so))
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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My six year old son and I spent several evenings playing Arimaa this month. He's caught on to some of the basic strategy of it and now is pretty crafty at stopping the advance of my rabbits while sneaking one of his rabbits down there.

The last time we played, he set up a pretty clever escort for his rabbit along one side of the board, using the elephant to move pieces out of the way and moving the escort group together. My response was distraction, as I kept advancing rabbits and tossing his other pieces into pits. It was a really fun game that was ended prematurely by a one year old grabbing several pieces off the board while we were washing our hands for dinner.
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GeekList: February 2012 Monthly THEMED Photo Contest! - ANIMALS
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
Pablo Schulman
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Facing the opponent head on...

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GeekList: Games worthy of devoting a life too
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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this one has a few things going for it that would suggest it should be.

Depth beyond a computer.

An online championship.

A commercial set finally.

And a fine strat book to help players along.

Oh, and it's a great game too.
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GeekList: Lifestyle games
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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It's more like an educated guess and only time will tell, whether this can become a lifestyle game.

It might have the potential.
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I certainly think this game has merit to play extensively and there is a strat book out now, which some here suggest is a key to ingraining a game.
 
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  • Posted Wed Feb 29, 2012 7:24 pm
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GeekList: Official 2012 Geek Madness Tournament: Preliminary Round - CLOSED
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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Best shot at getting some more AbStrat love into the Madness?
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GeekList: "I'm just a poor boy from a poor family." - Great Value Games.
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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Arimaa can be played on a chess board. Designed in response to Deep Blue's victory, Arimma was created to be a nightmare for computers to play well, while still being easy enough for a child to learn. To deepen the pot, the creator has offered an award to any computer program that can beat the best human Arimaa players. So far, that competition is still running.

I think Arimaa will be around for a while. As far as abstracts go, it has that feel of "classic." This is a great opportunity to get in on a game's strategy while it's still young.
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Agreed. Arimaa is my favorite modern abstract
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  • Posted Sat Feb 25, 2012 7:26 pm
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Tanga has this for crazy prices now and then. I think it was as low as $2.99 (shipping extra) around Christmastime.
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GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: 20 - 26 February 2012
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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@GW $1.99
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I can't believe this has shown up in a thrift.
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I can't believe this has shown up in a thrift.


why not -if the Dec. of Independence is out there....laugh
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I can't believe this has shown up in a thrift.


why not -if the Dec. of Independence is out there....laugh


Nope! All of them were already thirfted already! You will have settle for a moldy Bill of Rights!
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I can't believe this has shown up in a thrift.


I agree. Nice find.
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  • Posted Sat Feb 25, 2012 4:29 am
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Robrob wrote:
I can't believe this has shown up in a thrift.



Wasn't Tanga blowing these out last year (on several occassions)?
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GeekList: Toronto Area No Ship Math Trade XXV
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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Great condition
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GeekList: Toronto Area No Ship Math Trade XXV
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Excellent condition; played once.
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GeekList: BGG Statistics February 2012 - Best with 2 players
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GeekList: Spring Training Math Trade
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Mint in shrink.

Ship to US/Canada only. Free shipping to continental US, will cover $10 elsewhere.
 
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Opened but unplayed. In great shape. Free shipping to the contiguous US and $8 towards shipping anywhere else.
 
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GeekList: 50!! Commemorating my 50th abstract game!
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Z-Man edition.
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GeekList: What was the last game that BLEW YOUR MIND!!!???
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Not my last WOW but deserving of mention here
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GeekList: Games played on a 8×8 grid
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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A 8x8 grid with four dark spaces. Does that count?

I don't like the game though...
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GeekList: Abstract Strategy Decathlon - Postmodern
Board Game: Arimaa [Average Rating:7.52 Overall Rank:965]
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My favorite abstract.

I've played Arimaa 9 plays this past year.

I wish could get this to the table more often, It's a fantastic game. It does require a dedicated opponent though.
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Great condition. Smoke free home.
 
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