After another classic "Rule 23" event from Adrian last week, I thought I'd blog about the origin.
My recollection was that this from a game we played in the mid-nineties called Kings & Things. After having played it many times, we spotted a rule that said that the first player in each turn was supposed to change i.e. the second player became the first player.
This makes sense in many games where there are limited options and each player should have the same opportunities across the whole game, but in a fighting game like Kings & Things, it essentially means that players are encouraged to fight the first player because everyone else has two turns to their one them when that person "misses a go" as they shift from being first player in one round to last player in the next.
Anyway, the belated discovery of a crucial rule in a game has become known as "Rule 23" ever since.
So I dug out a copy of the Kings & Things rules and found the first player change rule.
It's rule 29!
This either means I've misremembered the game which is the source of our "Rule 23" legend, or we played an edition of the game with different numbering of the rules.
Can anyone solve the mystery? Otherwise, it looks like our very own "Rule 23" story is itself subject to a kind of "Rule 23" effect!
My recollection was that this from a game we played in the mid-nineties called Kings & Things. After having played it many times, we spotted a rule that said that the first player in each turn was supposed to change i.e. the second player became the first player.
This makes sense in many games where there are limited options and each player should have the same opportunities across the whole game, but in a fighting game like Kings & Things, it essentially means that players are encouraged to fight the first player because everyone else has two turns to their one them when that person "misses a go" as they shift from being first player in one round to last player in the next.
Anyway, the belated discovery of a crucial rule in a game has become known as "Rule 23" ever since.
So I dug out a copy of the Kings & Things rules and found the first player change rule.
This either means I've misremembered the game which is the source of our "Rule 23" legend, or we played an edition of the game with different numbering of the rules.
Can anyone solve the mystery? Otherwise, it looks like our very own "Rule 23" story is itself subject to a kind of "Rule 23" effect!
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