Hello Charles: I think we are coming at this from two completely different angles. For one thing you seem to be talking about playing with other people when I am talking about playing by myself.
If I were playing with friends, family, etc I would agree with you that having braille cards, a brailed board game, etc is obviously ideal. However, just to sit down and play a game by myself having the physical cards or board means nothing to me. In short, we are coming at this because we are in two completely different situations. Although, I was married for slightly over ten years I was often left at home and didn't have anyone to play card or board games with. So naturally, I was not going to open my closet and get out a physical deck of cards or a board game just to play Solitaire or some other game when I could fire up one of Jim Kitchen's games and get the same entertainment value. Even times when someone was around it didn't mean I could sit down and play a game with them at that time. My son might have been playing with friends, my wife was watching TV, or something like that and again something like Jim Kitchen's games were more appropriate than pulling out a brailed game of cards etc. The bottom line is if I was with friends or family I certainly would use braille cards and a physical game board. However, as I am now going through a divorce, currently live alone, I have no one else to play games with currently. It is for that reason I don't feel having a physical deck of cards is all that important, because Jim Kitchen's versions of the card games suits my needs as a single person. I said all of that to pose this question. Since most of your logic is based on playing with other people what would you do if those people weren't there? If you were living alone had no one to play cards and other games with? Would you still feel that playing with a braille deck of cards was just as important, more important, or less important when it is just you to play those games? Cheers! On 12/12/13, Charles Rivard <[email protected]> wrote: > Card games without using cards lose the feel and atmosphere of the game. I > > do play Jim Kitchen's Monopoly game, but it still doesn't have the feel and > > atmosphere of a game of Monopoly with friends, because there isn't the > exchange of money between players. > > It's the same with any physical board game as opposed to the same game > played on a computer. The physical aspect is removed, thus taking away from > > game play and enjoyment. > > A game of cards without cards in your hand just isn't the same. Brailled > cards can quickly and easily be read. For a game of solitaire, you could > build a box with dividers out of cardboard and glue or staples to hold card > > stacks. Card shuffling is a matter of dexterity. I have no problem > shuffling a deck of 80 Pinochle cards during a game of double deck > Pinochle. > > > > --- > Be positive! When it comes to being defeated, if you think you're finished, > > you! really! are! finished! --- Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [email protected]. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [email protected].
