Stacking clarification | The Climbers

Chad Cook

(chadcook)

United States
Littleton
Colorado

One of the rules states,

"When stacking blocks, quarter-block spaces on both blocks must match up, if the surface edges do not."

There are four of us who cannot figure out what this means.

Posted Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:31 am
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Gerry Baygents

(rampantdragon)

United States
Kansas City
Missouri

Yeah, the first time I played I ran into the same thing. Still don't know the correct interpretation.

And the ladders and blocking stones are just one-time only uses per game, right?

Posted Sun Sep 18, 2011 6:43 am
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Mark Salzwedel

(ssgames)

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New York
New York

I guess I could have written that caption more clearly if there were more space, but you can see in the illustration above it how the top surfaces of the blocks have been marked with grids. The idea is that the blocks stacked on top must have their edges lining up with those grid lines or with the edge of the block beneath.

In this photo, you can see how the block is actually bridging three blocks beneath it, with half over one block (gray up) and two quarters over two other blocks (yellow and light blue up). You can see how all the base level blocks fit together legally.

I hope that helps.

Last edited Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:10 pm (Total Number of Edits: 1)
Posted Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:05 pm
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Mark Salzwedel

(ssgames)

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rampantdragon wrote:

And the ladders and blocking stones are just one-time only uses per game, right?

Page 3 of rules: "A ladder once used is immediately removed from play." and "At the beginning of your next turn, your blocking stone is taken out of the game."

Page 5 of rules (under "Forbidden Actions"): "use ladders or blocking stones more than once."

Did you not read the section heading on page 5 and think it was contradicting page 3?

Posted Sun Sep 18, 2011 4:09 pm
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Gerry Baygents

(rampantdragon)

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Kansas City
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ssgames wrote:

rampantdragon wrote:

And the ladders and blocking stones are just one-time only uses per game, right?

Page 3 of rules: "A ladder once used is immediately removed from play." and "At the beginning of your next turn, your blocking stone is taken out of the game."

Page 5 of rules (under "Forbidden Actions"): "use ladders or blocking stones more than once."

Did you not read the section heading on page 5 and think it was contradicting page 3?

Part of the initial confusion was the fact that you used two different phrases, "from play" and "from the game." We all took that "from play" meant simply getting them out of the way for the next player. This made sense to us because 1) there are other games where items are removed from play but may make an appearance later, and 2) you used "from the game" when referring to the blocking stone. I think in a later reading of the rules we found - or rediscovered and paid attention to - the forbidden actions section.

Posted Sun Oct 9, 2011 4:53 pm
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Mark Salzwedel

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May be splitting hairs, but "out of play" and "out of the game" is the same to me. What you described is "setting aside for now."

Posted Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:20 pm
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