Dragaera

Dragaeran games and s-words...

Fri Jun 9 07:32:41 PDT 2006

Jon_Lincicum at stream.com wrote:

>Has anyone noticed that the names of practically all the games played in 
>Dragaera start with the letter "s"?
>
>Shereba. S'yang Stones. Seven-Clawed-Jhereg. Sandball. 
>
>Is there any significance to this, like the oranges in /The Godfather/
>
>  
>
There is so if you think so (thank you, Pirandello!).  Though what it 
could be escapes me presently.

I've always wanted to see S'yang in action, from a description that it 
is vaguely suggestive of Go.  (I've always wanted to play Tonk as well, 
but only if I can get One-Eye in the game & stop him from cheating (-; 
)  At the Go Congress each year, i usually get in a game of Tiddly Go, 
which involves flicking stones across the board & trying to knock your 
opponent's stones off the back end, among other things.  This usually 
requires less thought than defending a moyo, you understand (-;   I 
always imagine S'yang as something very roughly similar.

Snarkhunter