EinStein in Person

Hello!

I've really taken a liking to EinStein through LG and I was wondering if anyone plays it over the table in real life? If so, what do you think of it? I feel like it is a very fast paced game over the table, but almost too fast. The games can get very quick. Perhaps is this because I lack inexperience?

My better half and I added EinStein to the repertoire of "dice" games we play on a regular basis. Our favourite set up is with 13 dice, on a portable chess board. Six red dice, and six green dice for men, and a white die for the only actual die in the game. Most recently however, we made do and played several rounds in the __Einstein__ Pub on College St. in Toronto using torn up bits of paper, with hand written labels.

i made a board, and i paint some numbers on Mosaics for the stones.

In real life, the game was really quick (obviusly) and tending to bore.

I think some good idea to make it better, is to do some kind of tournament

with friends or doing bets.

Of course always its a great and simply game to have it in your table.

In 2005, there was a round-robin EinStein

tournament at Jena Univesity. See

http://www.3-hirn-verlag.de/einstein-turnier-jena.html

for some pictures.

Even some of the strong players from LG participated:

Theo van der Storm (now in heaven)

kitaktus

IngoS

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Over the board, the 4-person version is entertaining:

6x6-board;

each one starting in one of the corners, moves in turn.

The players sitting in diagonal opposition form a team.

A team is winner as soon as one of its members reaches the opposing

targt square with a stone. A team loses, as soon as one of its

members has lost all six stones. A team also loses when a member

tries to role the die although (s)he has only one stone left.

Ingo.