Alandra wrote:

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Do NOT start a thread about whether I am right, or wrong.
[snip.

Well, I personally feel this really is a thread for the list.  (At least
for those authors on the list who write in the Ranma universe.)  If we
wrote that they love playing Crazy 8's, Old Maid, Twister, Shuffleboard,
Poker, or Croquet it would matter to the story.  It would matter to the
characterization.  It would matter to the mood, and even, perhaps, the
plot.  (Witness the Gambler King arc in the Ranma storyline.)

Fic authors *do* need to know what game the two fathers are always
playing.  It's like the difference between whether a character plays
Checkers, Bingo, Bridge, Chinese Checkers, Chess or something else.

Whenever we see the board, we see that the game they are playing makes use
*not* of black and white discs, but of small flat polgonal tiles shaped
something like this:
    ..
  .    .
 .      .
 .      .
 .      .
 . .  . .

Each tile has a different kanji (or maybe kana for all I know of Japanese)
character written upon it's face in calligraphy.  The game is shogi (or
shougi) and I have not the *faintest* idea how it is played and what the
significance is.  It may mean they are intellectual giants of strategy.  It
may mean they are complete morons.  My sneaking suspicion is it means they
like to play shogi. ^_^

Tonbo
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