Tuesday, December 03, 2002
Echoes of New Games in Germany (as translated by Google)
It still heartens me to search for living remnants of New Games on the web. I Googled my way to this site, which, unfortunately for my language skills, was in German. Fortunately, Google provided me with a translation which, though still in Beta, left me with a challenge that is probably as much fun as playing the games. The site's called, ironically enough, List that new games. Here's a sample of what could prove to be, once properly understood, an even newer New Game:
E isenbahn
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Aid: None
Time: 10min
Formation: Circle
Group size: starting from 8 (20 is optimal)
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Player inside let drive in the circle a steam locomotive around.
Powerfully the cheeks up and copies a steam locomotive begins, blows the FR. It continues to give the driving locomotive to its left neighbour, by bending themselves to it. The second SpielerIn passes the locomotive on in the same way to its neighbour.
If it manages the group, "drives" the locomotive around with an even speed in the circle to leave, the FR let the course continue and explain the next phase of the play. Where rails are, there are also railroad overpasses with barriers. All player inside support their elbows up, and stretch the index fingers on the right of and left from the face highly. Those are the barriers. Every time a course comes, the barriers must be lowered, always, if it past is, must it against high go. This becomes expedient-proves with the noise of the bell begleitet:"DingDingDingDingDing....".
It is completely clear that the barriers must be down before the course come one must thus somewhat in former times thereby begin, about if the course is straight to the right with the second neighbour. Even if runs, the FR let the course continue and ring the next round: everywhere where barriers are, are also roads, and where roads are, cars drive....
Now each time, if the barriers down are, a car brakes before it. The car drives off again, if the course driven and the barriers are again high past. The loud-pictorial sequence with each SpielerIn is now thus: "Iiiiiik (Bremsenquiet), thing thing thing thing thing... (barrier), TschuffTschuff TschuffTschuffTschuffTschuff (steam locomotive), thing thing thing thing thing... (Schranke), Brrroooooom (starting car)"
It understands itself automatically that one must use now still in former times, before the course is there cars and needs barriers, everything its time.
Tip: With very many player inside it is quite possible to let in the opposite direction an express train drive. However it should be already 20 player inside, otherwise one gets the barriers no longer too.
Otherwise no borders are set to creativity. Still tunnel, upward gradient distances can be inserted and and and.
Problems: There are a little as ridiculous plays as this. If one is safe that the group does not have a slope to the Bloedsinn, one should let it rather be.
I think the key to the success of this game is to remember to keep "powerfully the cheeks up."
E isenbahn
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Aid: None
Time: 10min
Formation: Circle
Group size: starting from 8 (20 is optimal)
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Player inside let drive in the circle a steam locomotive around.
Powerfully the cheeks up and copies a steam locomotive begins, blows the FR. It continues to give the driving locomotive to its left neighbour, by bending themselves to it. The second SpielerIn passes the locomotive on in the same way to its neighbour.
If it manages the group, "drives" the locomotive around with an even speed in the circle to leave, the FR let the course continue and explain the next phase of the play. Where rails are, there are also railroad overpasses with barriers. All player inside support their elbows up, and stretch the index fingers on the right of and left from the face highly. Those are the barriers. Every time a course comes, the barriers must be lowered, always, if it past is, must it against high go. This becomes expedient-proves with the noise of the bell begleitet:"DingDingDingDingDing....".
It is completely clear that the barriers must be down before the course come one must thus somewhat in former times thereby begin, about if the course is straight to the right with the second neighbour. Even if runs, the FR let the course continue and ring the next round: everywhere where barriers are, are also roads, and where roads are, cars drive....
Now each time, if the barriers down are, a car brakes before it. The car drives off again, if the course driven and the barriers are again high past. The loud-pictorial sequence with each SpielerIn is now thus: "Iiiiiik (Bremsenquiet), thing thing thing thing thing... (barrier), TschuffTschuff TschuffTschuffTschuffTschuff (steam locomotive), thing thing thing thing thing... (Schranke), Brrroooooom (starting car)"
It understands itself automatically that one must use now still in former times, before the course is there cars and needs barriers, everything its time.
Tip: With very many player inside it is quite possible to let in the opposite direction an express train drive. However it should be already 20 player inside, otherwise one gets the barriers no longer too.
Otherwise no borders are set to creativity. Still tunnel, upward gradient distances can be inserted and and and.
Problems: There are a little as ridiculous plays as this. If one is safe that the group does not have a slope to the Bloedsinn, one should let it rather be.
I think the key to the success of this game is to remember to keep "powerfully the cheeks up."
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