Talk:Arimaa/Playing The Game

Who goes first?
Nowhere in either this page or the wikipedia article seems to indicate which player moves first. I'm guessing Gold, but it's not clear from this book. --Irrevenant (talk) 09:02, 28 November 2008 (UTC)

Yep, Gold goes first. Fritzlein (talk) 15:33, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Rule variations
I know these are the official rules described here, but we've played it quite a lot with these rules (originally these were tried because someone read the rules too quickly, I assume. Or maybe at that time the rules weren't available, who knows)
 * pushing/pulling only takes one move in total, that is, it's in a sense "free" to grab an enemy piece and drag it along or push it out of way
 * frozen pieces aren't unfrozen by friendly pieces

These rules work fine too; the consequence of the first change is that the game turns more aggressive and more pieces get dropped. The second one makes it harder to run a rabbit through without clearing a way for it.

Is there a story about how exactly the official rules got fixed? Has there been a lot of playtesting / simulation / revisions?

--Sigmundur (talk) 07:49, 10 October 2010 (UTC)

99of9
There needs to be an explanation of why this setup is called 99 of 9.