hist-games: What's the one game (or maybe two or three) you would include?

[Jane & Mark Waks]

jon at gothic green oak wrote:
> Gluckshaus is easy to construct, may be played by several people any of 
> whom may leave the game at some point and might be replaced by someone 
> else, and has the additional positive feature of requiring no skill 
> whatsoever.

Hmm. A good suggestion, but I find myself torn about the "easy to 
construct" thing. Making a primitive Gluckshaus board is easy, but a 
nice-looking one is a pain. And you can't over-simplify: it at least has 
to show enough mnemonics to remember which square does what. OTOH, it 
*is* an easy and fun social game. (Goose has many of the same 
considerations, but moreso: easy, fun, social, but its board is a *real* 
pain.)

> Three men's morris is one of the most beautifully formed two minute 
> games ever made, (possibly too simple though?).

Yeah, that's my suspicion -- I'm likely to go for nine-men's if I 
include a Morris game. Besides being common and medium-complexity, it's 
fairly easy to find commercially-made sets...

				-- Justin