How to play
FREELY MAKING TREES
(free operad)
This game is about building structures from basic pieces.
Each piece features a collection of slots ordered from left to right, used for attaching more pieces onto it.
SETUP
Ahead of time, decide on a fixed selection of colored pieces, each with a particular number of slots.
INSTRUCTIONS
The objective of the game is to build trees of pieces to your heart's content.
PLAY
Have fun!
MORE DETAILS
Here is a more explicit description of what it means to make a tree.
Attach some piece at the tree's base.
Continue to attach pieces to the structure, filling in available slots.
(In this process, you introduce yet more slots to be filled.)
(You can use the same type of piece multiple times in a tree.)
Stop at any point, and you have a tree.
VARIATIONS
When all pieces have just one slot, the game becomes freely making lists.
Meanwhile, ...
One input/output | Multiple inputs | ... | ... | ... |
---|---|---|---|---|
List | Tree |
Many other games use the idea of trees.
In this game, certain trees are made "equal" -- they can be swapped out for one another.