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How to Play Hextraction

68 points by tobr 3y ago

pimlottc 3y ago
This sounds intriguing, but the images are oddly cropped so that it's really hard to tell what's going on. More images and bigger images please!
mock-possum 3y ago
> Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game reference. That’s cute but also completely untrue, “winner winner chicken dinner” predates video-games by half a century at least.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
  It actually made me wonder if the video game call-out was tongue-in-cheek, as if to suggest that a member of Gen Z would not understand a game which isn't a video game. Looks like it's (probably) a reference to PUBG[0]: > Winner winner chicken dinner became popular online after the release of the 2017 multiplayer shooter video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Game developer Brendan “PlayerUnkown” Greene is a fan of the phrase and included it in most of the battle-royale modes he has created. If a player manages to be the sole survivor of the notoriously difficult game of PUBG, they are greeted with the poultry praise upon victory. [0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-dinner/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-din...
  - zamnos 3y ago
    From your link: > David Guzman, author of a book on craps lingo, has said that the term comes from back-alley gamblers during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
- chrisco255 3y ago
  I'm pretty sure it's a Las Vegas reference to winning a free meal.
darknavi 3y ago
I know videos aren't everyone's favorite format, but Zack (voidstarlab) has a great video on Hextraction and is just a fun person to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A
- nvahalik 3y ago
  Hah! He alliterates better than a baptist pastor!
JohnFen 3y ago
I'm a couple days into printing this game up to bring it to the next game night with my friends. I'm looking forward to it, because this looks like great fun.
zouhair 3y ago
So, this is a free PvP version of Marble Circuit by MindWare[0], cool. [0]: https://roadstoeverywhere.com/marble-circuit/ https://roadstoeverywhere.com/marble-circuit/
- shagie 3y ago
  Another game with a similar idea - Meander ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1244/meander https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1244/meander ) > Two players, seated on either side of a corner, fill up the board, creating routes to their respective opposite side. After the theory, the test. The board is tilted. A gentle touch releases the first player’s five balls, one by one, and gravity does the rest. Same procedure for the second player.

68 points by tobr 3y ago

This sounds intriguing, but the images are oddly cropped so that it's really hard to tell what's going on. More images and bigger images please!

mock-possum 3y ago

> Zoomers: The chicken dinner thing is an outdated video-game reference. That’s cute but also completely untrue, “winner winner chicken dinner” predates video-games by half a century at least.

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 3y ago
It actually made me wonder if the video game call-out was tongue-in-cheek, as if to suggest that a member of Gen Z would not understand a game which isn't a video game. Looks like it's (probably) a reference to PUBG[0]: > Winner winner chicken dinner became popular online after the release of the 2017 multiplayer shooter video game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG). Game developer Brendan “PlayerUnkown” Greene is a fan of the phrase and included it in most of the battle-royale modes he has created. If a player manages to be the sole survivor of the notoriously difficult game of PUBG, they are greeted with the poultry praise upon victory. [0] https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-dinner/ https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/winner-winner-chicken-din...
- zamnos 3y ago
  From your link: > David Guzman, author of a book on craps lingo, has said that the term comes from back-alley gamblers during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
chrisco255 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it's a Las Vegas reference to winning a free meal.

darknavi 3y ago

I know videos aren't everyone's favorite format, but Zack (voidstarlab) has a great video on Hextraction and is just a fun person to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iqz7ZDdP25A

nvahalik 3y ago
Hah! He alliterates better than a baptist pastor!

JohnFen 3y ago

I'm a couple days into printing this game up to bring it to the next game night with my friends. I'm looking forward to it, because this looks like great fun.

zouhair 3y ago

So, this is a free PvP version of Marble Circuit by MindWare[0], cool. [0]: https://roadstoeverywhere.com/marble-circuit/ https://roadstoeverywhere.com/marble-circuit/

shagie 3y ago
Another game with a similar idea - Meander ( https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1244/meander https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1244/meander ) > Two players, seated on either side of a corner, fill up the board, creating routes to their respective opposite side. After the theory, the test. The board is tilted. A gentle touch releases the first player’s five balls, one by one, and gravity does the rest. Same procedure for the second player.