Montpelier Meet-ups

It's been quite a few months since our last game at the Tea Lounge, where we introduced Donna to the game.

I've since moved to Montpelier and am looking for anyone eager to play Numble or learn. Adults, kids, whatever. I'd love to spread the Numble fever up north.

sequencing

Heidi sent this one to me recently. She took it with her cell phone. It's me and Rose from our Numble session this past April. The sun was going down. I think I won that game, too.

SEQUENCING:

all dailog is paraphrased from memory...

Rose: When you lay a sequence adjacent to another, can a remaining standalone sequence be the same number, as in 2-2?

Phayvanh: I don't see why not. It's still an order of numbers, even if it is the same number.

Heidi: I don't think so, but whatever you guys want to do.

The Rules: "a valid sequence must consist of two or more tiles in a single row" and "all sequences must have the face value of their tiles arranged in either ascending or descending order...however, the same number may be used two or more times consecutively."

We played it so that any secondary sequence (as a result of a play) could be single number "sequences" ie: a row of tiles of the same value. That was easy, if you call three hours of number-crunching easy.

On second thought, I think that a number sequence must move either up or down the value scale, and since a row of 2's is static, it does not qualify.

Heidi: I agree with that

Rose: That's what I originally thought, why I asked.

This resulted in a removed play by Rose in our next session, which I challenged because of the new Rule.

The Official Numble Rules printed on the inside of the box unfortunately do not clarify on this issue. I think that a static row of three 8's (for example) could qualify under the printed rules, as it may be moving fractionally but has not reached the next whole number destination.

game night / Numble match 10/4/06

Rose, Heidi and I are set to play another round of Numble at The Twilight Tea Lounge on Wednesday, October 4th at 7 pm.

51 Main St, Brattleboro, for those of you needing directions. (802) 254-8887, or just stop by.

We'll have at least one game board there. If not two. A game takes us about three hours. If we're done early, I'll match any of you to speed Scrabble (where you play as fast as you can).

Rose made up this sheet, which she uses to keep track of changes on the board. It also helps her to plan her next moves. Pretty elaborate, for just a kid's game, you say?

Well, yeah, it is. But it makes much better sense than all my scribbling. That black bar on the left of the page is a contested sequence I made her put back. Which I felt bad about so helped to make more points with a different maneuver.

Come join us. BYOCalculator.

where are all the grown ups?

There's very little online that I can find which involve the Numble Cross-Numbers Game and adult players.

Too bad, as the only people I can really think to play it with are adults, who have the hours-long patience of Scrabble players, the precision of CPAs mixed with the looniness that comes from following silly, arbitrary rules.

Ah, but the rules themselves are a little fuzzy, aren't they? In my Numble matches, we've found loopholes, had to develop house rules, and are still discovering the hindrances and allure of the game itself.

So here we have it, a place for those closeted grown-ups playing Numble in secret when the kids are asleep.

So here's to Game Nights everywhere, and those battered red boxes. Bring out those calculators and bring it on!