I've just had an email burp, so excuse me if I'm answering this twice: I envision the game as a sort of combination of horseshoes, shuffleboard, Chinese checkers, and Go, but I've never fully formalized the rules. On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 09:33, Scott Schultz wrote: > Are there actual written down rules for S'yang Stones or are the details > just made up as needed for the stories? I keep picturing it as some sort of > weird amalgam of Othello and Mancala. > > > > > -- Steven Brust skzb at dreamcafe.com "Preacher, don't the bible have some pretty specific things to say about killing?" "Quite specific. It's rather fuzzier, however, on the subject of kneecaps." -- Firefly