Craig Duncan
United States
Ithaca
New York
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I'm thinking about getting Halli Galli, but I'm tempted to try it out with my Blink deck first (sans bell -- maybe I will have my kids grab a nerf ball instead, using the same principle as the totem in Jungle Speed).
I see there are 56 cards in 4 fruits, with 1-5 fruit pieces per card. That means 14 cards of each fruit. I'm curious what the distribution of numbers is. That is, for fruit X, how many cards with 1 piece of X? How cards with 2 pieces of X? And so on.
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Fraser
Australia
Melbourne
Yep that was 12 Power Grid maps back to back over two days. Worth doing, but possibly not in such a concentrated burst.
Ooh yes, now a little to the left - my nose is itchy. No, no the other left! Now what colour is 12 supporter badge going to be I wonder?
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You couldn't really use the blink deck and have remotely the same game, as Halli Galli is all 1-5 of the same fruit, nothing at all really like the Blink deck. Blink is pattern, colour and/or number recognition. Halli Galli is pattern recognition and arithmetic to or from five.
We have both and the kids love them both.
Beware the blood rule though 
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Craig Duncan
United States
Ithaca
New York
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Yeah, you're right. I guess I had in mind a new game -- call it Halli Jungle Blink. Use Blink cards, use the 5-same-shapes idea of Halli Galli, and use the grab-a-totem idea of Jungle Speed (my totem would be a non-bruising small nerf ball). All combined it wouldn't be like any of the three games but it could be fun -- I haven't tried it yet.
I've even been tempted to really mess things up and after each successful totem-grab roll a die: 1-2 = 5 same shapes and you grab the totem; 3-4 = 5 items (whatever shape) of the same color and you grab the totem; 5-6 = EITHER 5 same shape OR 5 items of the same color, and you grab the totem.
As I have said, I haven't tried it yet. I wanted to duplicate the distribution of numbers in Halli Galli so far as possible. Since for each shape (i.e. fruit type) there are 14 cards, are there three 1s, three 2s, three 3s, three 4s and two 5s? Just a guess.
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Jim McMahon
United States
West Springfield
Massachusetts
Lookee what he can do! He wants a job!
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I just checked the card distruibution. (I have the Amigo/Gigamic version with me now, other versions should be the same) Each fruit has the exact same distribution, which is:
1: 5 cards
2: 3 cards
3: 3 cards
4: 2 cards
5: 1 card
Hope that helps!
Jim
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Craig Duncan
United States
Ithaca
New York
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Thanks, Jim, it does help!
Craig
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Posted Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:45 pm
