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Chess on a Tesseract. Chess played over the 24 two-dimensional sides of a tesseract. (24x(5x5), Cells: 504) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
💡📝Bob Greenwade wrote on Tue, Dec 12, 2023 12:41 AM UTC:

I just finished the playspace demo structure (other than a little fine-tuning and proofreading).

This game is looking more accessible all the time. This is 47"L x 35"W x 23.5"H (assuming 2" squares), which is huge as 3D setups go but still not quite unmanageable. If I make it for 1.5" squares, that becomes 35.25" x 26.25" x 17.625", which should fit on a typical dining table (even if it does take a good 15 minutes just to set up), and still leave a gap of 4.5" between the struts (which will be important if anyone moves to Face XL).

I probably could 3D print the trays, make the struts from wooden dowels or PVC pipe, print the squares on cardstock, and print the labels on some sort of decal.

This clearly cannot be played on an Interactive Diagram or in Game Courier. I don't think Jocly can handle it, either. What about Zillions of Games? (I can't purchase that one, sadly, because of a lifetime ban from Paypal which is a long and embarrassing story.) Any others?

@Fergus: Does this coordinate system work, and seem to be clear? I plan to work up a version of the playspace structure with the numeric system in any event, even if it's only an illustration and/or an experiment to show myself how easy or difficult it'd be to find a specific Face.