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Yes, this is the second game I'm putting out in comic form. I've never actually made a full 3-D board of this one, I usually just play it flat on paper with three squares labelled as "top", "middle", and "bottom".
And yes, some people may note that this is quite similar to a game called Quarto, except it's 3^3 instead of 4^2.
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(Monday. INT: living room, JH is bringing out Triptych)
JH: Here we are, one of the first games I ever made. Triptych.
EB: Oh, crap, three dimensions?
JH: It's simpler than it looks. It's just three by three by three, like hyper tic tac toe.
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(Diagrams)
JH: No offensive material here, just shapes and colours. There's twenty-seven pieces, and each can be circle, triangle, or square; red, green, or blue; and striped, spotted, or checked.
JH: How a turn works is I choose a piece to give you, you place it, then you choose a piece to give me, I place it, and so on.
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(Diagrams)
JH: The winner is the player who can make a line of three with a characteristic in common - like all red, or all striped.
JH: Diagonals, even diagonals in three dimensions, count. The games are usually really short, I've never had one last more than twelve moves.
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(INT: living room)
EB (feeling the board): Are these overhead transparencies?
JH: Yeah, I had limited back resources back in high school. I had to swipe my materials from math class.
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