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After watching an attempt to make Scrabble work [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM ], I was thinking what

After watching an attempt to make Scrabble work [ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaXo_i3ktwM ], I was thinking what games could work via a webcam if all players have the game. Thinking of games I've played recently, Dominion would work. Ticket to Ride wouldn't. On the Underground would, 1960 Making of a President wouldn't. Normal Settlers wouldn't, but the junior version of Settlers would The key thing is not drawing secret information from a shared pool. Dominion works as it's secret information from a non-secrete deck, which can be known by all players -- you just have to ensure to remove the right cards from play. If player A takes a Duchy, player B removes one Duchy from his set from play. With Ticket To Ride there's no way to ensure that you don't get the same tickets on each side - secret information from a common limited source. Normal Settlers would struggle with the soldier cards -- you can draw a soldier, but it could be roadbuilding or year of plenty. Junior settler has the same with coco cards, but those are played immediately so that works. Obvioulsy open games, like Chess, Go, Backgammon, work. Games like Battleships and Guess Who, where there is secret information but no shared ppol would work too (ok you could both be guessing the same character in guess who, but that would be OK)

wiredfool 7y ago
An Oracle/proctor would help, to set things up and divide the state up properly.
taejo 7y ago
Dominion would indeed work with webcam, because everyone only shuffles their own cards, but you can only play with the cards that everyone has (if one player has an expansion and the others don't, you can't use it). If all of your players already know how to play, I strongly recommend the official Dominion Online [0]! The base game is free, and the expansions are very affordable too ($1.95 for a month with half the expansions [the older ones], or $3.90 for all, no recurring charges, and only one player at the table needs to have bought them). Unfortunately it's not very intuitive as an introduction to the game because you don't get a good feel of where cards are coming from and going to, but once you know the game it's arguably better (because of the instant setup and shuffling, and automatic tracking of effects). [0] https://dominion.games/ https://dominion.games/
graywh 7y ago
The River (by Days of Wonder) is a worker/resource game that can work since there's limited private information that originates as public.
jvm_ 7y ago
The ticket to ride app is only $8-9 depending on your platform. It's pretty easy to find other players and make an online game. We played a few games as a family with a meet.jit.si running in the background, it worked pretty good. If you assume the price of the game is the cost of the gas it would take to drive to someone's house, it evens out in the end.

wiredfool 7y ago

An Oracle/proctor would help, to set things up and divide the state up properly.

taejo 7y ago

Dominion would indeed work with webcam, because everyone only shuffles their own cards, but you can only play with the cards that everyone has (if one player has an expansion and the others don't, you can't use it). If all of your players already know how to play, I strongly recommend the official Dominion Online [0]! The base game is free, and the expansions are very affordable too ($1.95 for a month with half the expansions [the older ones], or $3.90 for all, no recurring charges, and only one player at the table needs to have bought them). Unfortunately it's not very intuitive as an introduction to the game because you don't get a good feel of where cards are coming from and going to, but once you know the game it's arguably better (because of the instant setup and shuffling, and automatic tracking of effects). [0] https://dominion.games/ https://dominion.games/

graywh 7y ago

The River (by Days of Wonder) is a worker/resource game that can work since there's limited private information that originates as public.

jvm_ 7y ago

The ticket to ride app is only $8-9 depending on your platform. It's pretty easy to find other players and make an online game. We played a few games as a family with a meet.jit.si running in the background, it worked pretty good. If you assume the price of the game is the cost of the gas it would take to drive to someone's house, it evens out in the end.