New Games on Richard's PBeM Server From: rognlie@lute.gcr.com (Richard W. Rognlie) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000 Richard's Play-By-eMail Server is proud to welcome a bevy of new games to its growing family of games! Connect4 On a 7x6 board, two players alternate dropping their pieces from the top of the board, down a column, attempting to form four in a row. Connect4x4 On an 8x8 board, two players alternate inserting their pieces fron the edges of the board, across a row or up/down a column, attempting to form four in a row. Gomoku On a 15x15 board, the two players of gomoku try to be the first to create a line of 5 or more stones in a row of their color. Pente On a 19x19 board, the two players of pente try to be the first to create a line of 5 or more stones in a row of their color *or* try to capture 5 pairs of their opponents stones. You capture a pair of stones any time you sandwich the stones between a pair of your stones. Qubic On a 4x4x4 grid, two players alternate placing their pieces, attempting to form four in a row in any direction. Score4 On a 4x4 grid of pegs, two players alternate dropping their pieces from the top of a peg, down a column, attempting to form four in a row in any direction. Survival Survival is played on a hexagonal board made up of 19 numbered hexagons. Two players take turns placing pieces on the board with the "arrow" of the piece dictating the direction in which the next piece played by that player must be played. The first player who can not move loses the game. For information on how to play any of the games supported via the PBeM Server, send mail to pbmserv@vtsu.prc.com with 'help' (sans quotes) as the Subject: line. The new games are provided through the efforts of: Soren Pingel Dalsgaard (pingel@daimi.aau.dk) [primarily] Richard Rognlie (rrognlie@vtsu.prc.com) [testing] Hope to see you soon on PBeM! -- /\/\/\ | Richard Rognlie / Pr. Computer Analyst / PRC Inc. / McLean, VA / \ \ \ | E-Mail: rrognlie@qnet.com rrognlie@vtsu.prc.com \ / / / | Phone: (Home) (703) 361-4764 (Office) (703) 556-2458 \/\/\/ | (Fax) (703) 556-1174 Up