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And a scoring tweak

Did a bit more playtesting of Rainbow Skyscrapers over the weekend, and people seemed to find it fun: lots of cussing and laughter! This was with casual gamers: I haven’t tried it on a hardcore mob yet. (Or with kids.) Players quite quickly hit on the tactic of placing blocks deliberately wonkily on other players’ […]

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Rainbow Skyscrapers (as it’s now known)

It seems that the ancient kids’ game Rainbow Towers is still remembered and even available, so let’s try Rainbow Skyscrapers instead for this new one that I mentioned the other day. After a bit of testing it turns out the the 2-player game doesn’t work very well as written. Because the players’ block pools are […]

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Dexterity game idea – Rainbow Towers (working title)

A while ago I got a bunch of coloured wooden blocks, for a project which ended up not taking place; and having stumbled across them again just now, I’ve been wondering about the possibility of turning them into a game. An early place-and-score type idea ended up converging towards (the excellent) Totemo, but last night […]