Simon visiting ADmiral, geoo, Ramon in Vienna

[Simon]

Hi,

we haven't made a thread while I was in Vienna, 2015-09-14 through 2015-09-26.

I have spent the first week with Peter (ADmiral), seeing the town, and meeting some of his friends.

geoo and Ramond joined in during the second week. All 4 of us have slept at geoo's apartment for one day. We have played a ton of Tetris Attack, and reallife Zendo with my set of Icehouse pieces.



Left: Peter (ADmiral), right: myself. Ramon was sitting off the left, and geoo took the photo.

I have longer hair again than during summertime, when geoo was over in Göttingen. Akseli will be extremely happy about my choice of clothing, instead of being only very happy, as he is all the time.

The rule on the photo was by geoo:

Secret Rule (click to show/hide)

AKHTBN iff the number of sizes is equal to the number of colors.

Despite knowing the game for quite some time now, I didn't test thoroughly the single-color koans, and made rushed conclusions that every single-color koan was white. The game was eventually resigned, and I was angry about myself for not solving this. It's not a suitable rule for new players, but I should have been experienced enough to get it.

<SimonN> there's only one way to make up for this self-letdown -- play another game tomorrow

Of course we did. :-)

The black pyramids aren't used in Zendo. geoo liked to fidget with them to pass time.

-- Simon

[Ramon]

To be more precise geoo was doing something like that https://youtu.be/eDelGqj7UGQ?t=37s and hiding smaller pyramids under larger ones in 3 sizes