Place to discuss new abstract game?

A non-computer-savvy friend of mine has invented a 2-dimensional version of NIM and is interested in discussing it online with others. Any ideas where the best place(s) to do this are?

Is rec.games.abstract still vibrant? It's where I would have turned a decade ago. It's where I heard about Little Golem, too.

Board Game Geek might be one place to start.

http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.abstract/topics is a good place at times, if you have a thick skin and no particular reluctance to ignore spam or personal attacks. 'Vibrant' may be too strong a word though.

And, before I forget, there are a couple of NIM haters around :)

Another place is http://groups.google.com/group/recregamescombinatorial/

It's moderated and they like NIM, but you have to apply for membership.

Your friend can also post here. I would guess there would be a few players interested in a new variant of Nim.

Here's good.

rec.games.abstract still has a few smart people reading it. (JDA's just returned, for example). However, don't read it through the braindead google groups interface, use a proper usenet client instead. (That way, you can put the idiot(s) in a killfile as well actually have your posts be read by those who automatically killfile everything emanation from googlegroups.)

Thanks, everyone, for the answers. I'll pass them along.