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From: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: A new game?
Message-ID: <211@birtch.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 23-Dec-85 01:17:30 EST
Article-I.D.: birtch.211
Posted: Mon Dec 23 01:17:30 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Dec-85 03:59:05 EST
References: <169@ingres.ARPA>
Reply-To: oleg@birtch.UUCP (Oleg Kiselev)
Organization: The Real Estate Conspiracy
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Summary: 

In article <169@ingres.ARPA> grady%ingres@ucbvax.ARPA (Steven Grady) writes:
>Some of us here have been playing Cosmic Encounter for a few months
>now, and I'd like to move on to a new game before this one gets
>stale.  Here are the basic requirements:
>Playable by 3-6 players (a wider range would be even better)
>Not too simple or complicated
>Reasonably short playing time (1 -3 hours)
>Not too many pieces (this sort of rules out many Avalon Hill games, but
>	this game will be taken out and put away many times, so I'd like
>	to lower the risk of losing things.)
>(Preferably) expandable (ie if we like it we can buy expansion sets)
>
>Cost is not really a problem, since we have a lot of people to share the
>load, but if it's an expandable game, it would be nice if the basic game
>were not much more than $20..
>
>Do people have ideas or suggestions?

YES : buy some of the Cosmic Encounter expansions. They drasticly alter
the game and introduce multitude of new twists.
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