July 08, 2003
Playing Zendo
For lunch I tagged along with a group of people who had plans to play a neat little game called Zendo that involves little plastic colored triangles, sets of logic-based rules involving patterns and shapes, plastic chips and blue and white marble stones. The game is too difficult to explain in a short paragraph but it's highly addictive since it involves inductive reasoning and logical thinking, two characteristics that have long been a part of games geeks love. Playing this game with anyone but a group of highly-intelligent geeks would likely be dreadfully boring. There are a bunch of web sites that have sprouted up to serve the Zendo game community. Check it out, it's a fun game.
Posted by Cameron Barrett at July 8, 2003 05:24 PMA fine game indeed. Playing it with non-geeks works just fine. The players should have a modicum of reasoning skills, though.
My experience has been that the people who aren't good at it (and thus are frustrating to play with) don't like it anyway, and tend to quit playing after a game or two.
Posted by: Ian at July 9, 2003 01:31 PM
