Oski rules

One of the rules state:

"If player on move is not able create word, she lost game immediately."

I wonder if this ever happened?

Hi Michael,

I think that this is like a draw in Havannah: it can happen, but it should not happen until both players are seeking for this situation.

I'd prefer the rule:

"If the player on move is not able to create a word, her opponent has lost the game immediately." for lacking sportswomanship. ;-)

Blocking is important, it would be careless to allow the opponent to stop you moving. The probability of it happening is extremely low. With 2 letter words allowed I don't see a competive game getting shut down so it is probably moot. The rule should not effect the english language oski and I suspect that would be the case for other languages.

It could happen in the final move(s) of the game.

Assume the last free field in a WYPS.ascending to be surrounded by the same "letters", e.g. 5. If you have a pool consisting entirely of fives, you lose. This should not happen that often.

(I refer to WYPS.ascending, because it has a well-known list of allowed words.)

Like kingofthebesI I consider this situation very unlikely, especially when 2-letter-words are allowed.

Thomas, in WYPS you can play a single stone and it's a valid move ;)

they are talking about OSKI here :)

Ok, my fault. Blame the abbreviations, when you can't tell IMHO from STFU. :-)

Thanks for the correction.