Re: Malkovich reflections
Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 10:17 am
This last Christmas break my brother, his wife and I were digging through the old board-game closet and pulled out Clue. The last time any of us had played it, we were pretty young and just used brute-force process of elimination. As adults we discovered the meta-gaming aspect and it became a much more interesting game.
We came up with complicated systems for keeping track of all the half-truths and partial information we got from other players guesses. We'd spend turns to move players to an inconvenient part of the board to keep them away from a room they were trying to eliminate. Different kinds of misdirection earned names like "The Total Bastard", "Col. Mustard's Gambit" or "The Scarlet Defense".
We came up with complicated systems for keeping track of all the half-truths and partial information we got from other players guesses. We'd spend turns to move players to an inconvenient part of the board to keep them away from a room they were trying to eliminate. Different kinds of misdirection earned names like "The Total Bastard", "Col. Mustard's Gambit" or "The Scarlet Defense".
