From: Don Woods <don@clari.net>
Newsgroups: rec.games.abstract
Subject: Re: Top Ten Abstract Games
Date: 19 Aug 1997 13:10:44 -0700

mwdaly@kodak.com (Matthew Daly) writes:
> Qubic, IIRC, is the brand name for the 4x4x4 tic-tac-toe variant where
> you're dropping beads onto dowels so as to make it a sort of 3-d "Connect
> 4".

Not quite.  Qubic is indeed a brand-name for 4x4x4 tic-tac-toe.  I think
there was some difference in the rules, such as one type of line not being
counted as win.  (The "space diagonals", perhaps?  Or maybe it was the
lines that are diagonals in a vertical orthogonal plane?)

The game you're thinking of where you drop beads onto dowels was called
"Score Four", though there may be other versions with other names.  Score
Four actually has noticeably different tactics than straight 4x4x4 t-t-t,
because of the limitation that you can't hang beads in mid-air. :-)  But
it's definitely in the same "class" as 4x4x4 t-t-t.

	-- Don.

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