Has anyone here played Nomic? If so, what was it like, and where did you do it? Are there any common strategies or rules of thumb?
-Ben
Haven’t played Nomic before, though it’s interested me since I first ran across it in a Hofstadter essay.
There’s a card game named Fluxx that uses a “lite” version of self-amendment. Initially, players need to build a trick that fulfills the winning conditions, but other cards played change those winning conditions. It’s pretty amusing, but a bit too chaotic to be strategic–games tend to meander on for ages, then abruptly end more or less by chance. Fun to play in the midst of semi-drunken conversations.
That sounds vaguely like a game I invented. It’s a haggling game where people trade cards with different point values, but the scoring scheme is different for each person and changes throughout the game.
-Ben