Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar
From: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Cosmic Encounter
Message-ID: <1544@mit-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 4-Apr-84 23:30:10 EST
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1544
Posted: Wed Apr  4 23:30:10 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Apr-84 02:13:46 EST
References: <872@linus.UUCP>
Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lines: 23

I use to play Cosmic Encounters alot when I was an MIT student (until
this past summer).  I wasn't very good, but then I never was very good
at strategy games.  However, the great thing about Cosmic is that it is
still lots of fun, no matter how you do.

We extended the rules to make the game more exciting.  Generally each
player had about three alien powers, and could exercise the abilities of
all the powers in a turn.

Many of our games ended in a real flurry of excitement.  Cosmic Zaps fly
back and forth, and players time warp to get in final turns.  We have
had a number of games that looked like they were about to end, when
someone plays the card (whose name I forget) that makes everyone trade
in their powers.  One time it looked like the game was going to go on
for another hour (it had already been going for several hours), but one
of the players wanted to go home, so he played a card that no one knew
he had, and the game was over about ten minutes later.

Too bad we can't play Cosmic over the net.
-- 
			Barry Margolin
			ARPA: barmar@MIT-Multics
			UUCP: ..!genrad!mit-eddie!barmar