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Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition

Posted By: Chuck Bower
Date: Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 12:50 a.m.

In Response To: Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition (Henrik Bukkjaer)

If you really have a situation where two players cannot come to terms with each other, about the effect of "vigorous", then call the director over, show him the shake and ask: Is this good enough?

So, the omniscient director knows how to interpret the vague rule? That's about half the problem. It's hard for directors to enforce a rule when even they must be called upon to guess what the rule means.

"Distance" above the board is difficult to interpret/enforce. There is no ruler (meter stick) attached to a dicecup. But something like "a minimum of three up and down shakes" or for the more scientifically motivated "a minimum of three shakes parallel to the axis of the dice cup cylinder, each of which involves the dice striking both the bottom of the dicecup and the hand covering the dicecup opening" should be clear enough for any metrologically challenged dufus to understand and comply to.

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• Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
  Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 8:38 p.m.
  • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
    Adam Versaw -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 8:59 p.m.
    • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 9:20 p.m.
      • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
        Chiva Tafazzoli -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 10:38 p.m.
        • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
          Henrik Bukkjaer -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 12:20 a.m.
  • Question for all
    Chuck Bower -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 9:02 p.m.
    • Question for all
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 9:21 p.m.
      • Question for all
        Chuck Bower -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 11:13 p.m.
    • Question for all
      Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 2:18 a.m.
      • Question for all
        Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 3:21 p.m.
        • Question for all
          Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 5:01 p.m.
          • Electronic cubical dice
            Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 5:17 p.m.
            • Electronic cubical dice
              Bill Riles -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 5:40 p.m.
              • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                eXtreme Gammon -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 5:44 p.m.
                • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                  Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 5:50 p.m.
                  • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                    Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 7:02 p.m.
                    • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                      Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 7:50 p.m.
                  • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                    Colin Owen -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 7:11 p.m.
                    • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                      Henrik Bukkjaer -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 9:23 p.m.
                      • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                        Colin Owen -- Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 6:12 a.m.
                        • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                          Daniel Murphy -- Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 2:37 p.m.
                          • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                            Henrik Bukkjaer -- Friday, 25 February 2011, at 9:53 a.m.
                      • Electronic cubical dice - one advantage
                        Chuck Bower -- Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 3:15 p.m.
            • How about precision Electronic cubical dice
              Michael Petch -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 5:57 p.m.
        • Question for all
          Steve Mellen -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 6:13 p.m.
          • Question for all
            Rich Munitz -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 11:31 p.m.
            • Question for all
              Stick -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 11:35 p.m.
        • Question for all
          Daniel Murphy -- Wednesday, 23 February 2011, at 2:21 a.m.
  • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
    Chiva Tafazzoli -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 9:11 p.m.
    • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
      Jason Lee -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 9:26 p.m.
    • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
      Henrik Bukkjaer -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 12:14 a.m.
      • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
        Chuck Bower -- Tuesday, 22 February 2011, at 12:50 a.m.
  • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
    Stick -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 9:27 p.m.
    • Enforcing Little Rules, Pittsburgh Edition
      Chuck Bower -- Monday, 21 February 2011, at 11:07 p.m.