Path: typhoon.sonic.net!not-for-mail Newsgroups: alt.magick.chaos,alt.magick.tyagi Subject: Games and Divination Methods Followup-To: alt.magick.chaos,alt.magick.tyagi,alt.divination,alt.philosophy.taoism References: <2fw4a.3694$iu1.373644@news20.bellglobal.com> <3E537FCC.78C9@aol.com> From: xiwangmu Reply-To: spam@luckymojo.com User-Agent: nn/6.6.0 Lines: 45 Message-ID: <1EN5a.67889$Ik.2940847@typhoon.sonic.net> Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 16:34:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.201.242.18 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sonic.net X-Trace: typhoon.sonic.net 1045931645 208.201.242.18 (Sat, 22 Feb 2003 08:34:05 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2003 08:34:05 PST Xref: typhoon.sonic.net alt.magick.chaos:41587 alt.magick.tyagi:37209 50030221 VII om skinnypig: >> is there mysterious forces affecting the dice, which make the >> results anything but random? would it be any different if i just >> opened the book at any page? what is really going on with this? Moonshadao : > The real question is when you pass 'go' Go is a game with pebbles. I don't think it is mapped to Yijing, though its dual-nature would probably be conducive to a match. > do you use the 200 dollars I prefer calling square #40 "Mother Earth", as derived from the original quaker instructional device called "The Landlords Game", rather than "Go" as in the Parker Brothers ripoff. > to buy Marvin's Gardens or not? Marvin Gardens is space #29, and given a single roll of the 2d6, cannot, even if one begins from space #39 (Boardwalk), be landed upon using ordinary rules (2 x 6 = space #11, St. Charles Place + no cards which force a move to #29). given three full rolls of the dice, one may achieve landing on space #29, but the value of purchasing the property for its full price (rather than letting it go to auction) will of course be determined by the particulars of the game in progress and the advantages wielded by the landing player. this is different than the question of what is really going on in consulting Yijing, which is rather more metaphysical than strategic. I have found it interesting to consider the use of The Landlords Game and/or Monopoly as a divinatory device (look at Four Seasons, or Chaturanga and Enochian Chess, for example, or Tarocchi and Tarot), but as yet I'm unsure that its serial nature or entropic race-to-own qualities are conducive to reliable and clear results (despite the fact that there are 22 landed properties and an obviously quadratic composition making any Bohemian proud ;>). mu