RE: [haggis] Rules distribution

["Sullivan, William J" <wills@bu.edu>]

(mark, did you reply to just me on purpose?)

>On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 04:25:05PM -0400, Sullivan, William J wrote:
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>> have any crazy rules yet? 
>> -the value of a Potato is equal to the number of Guinnesses in your hand.  
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>That's a good one.  How should it work?  Do I not assign a basic value to potato, or does this rule >act as an overrider?

I was thinking that it would be a base value overrider. The value would have to be originally set at 0 but overridden by the number of guinnesses... this would be easy to code if there were no rules that said the value of blue is 2 more than the value of a potato.
 
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>Perhaps instead it should be phrased as a bonus:
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>"Each potato in your hand gains a bonus equal to the number of guinnesses."
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>But making it the basic rule instead would be pretty evil, especially if there are other cards that >are "adds to" that one.

I could see this being evil, but the "bonus" version would work too.

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>> -if furtivespy has the most pickles then radishes are worth double.
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>That works too.  I can just modify the "majoritybonus" rule to allow value doubling rather than a 
>point total.

the thing with this rule is that everyone gets the doubling bonus if one player has the condition.