Richard Foster - The Game of PINS
Richard FosterMy personal Substack, documenting my take on my father's never-finished game of PINS. Other writings now and again about the Netherlands, my books, and my art.
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PINS - Rule Fifty-four: The End of the Game
I know it’s the end of this game but there is no real end of PINS; there are endless moves and units lose pins along the way. Units reform, they wait on their commanding officers and they find themselves in new situations. And then, after i...
PINS - Rule Fifty-three: A Good Giggle
Games can be fun. And PINS is no exception. Even though PINS is a game based on a lot of concentration, and some detailed map reading, we can remember back to Rule 21, when we learnt about a… “Great Rule for Firing! : --
Estimate distance...
PINS - Rule Fifty-two: Resurrection
In PINS the idea of resurrection happens when you start a new game. Get the pieces out of the boxes and remember to put the ensign and the mounted officer and the drummer boys at the front. But remember at four o’ clock you’ll have to clear...
PINS - Rule Fifty-one: Casualties and The Dead
There is little if any talk of death, or even casualties in the rules for PINS. The only reference this writer can find is the sentence, “[a unit] could go on until all pins are gone - then they leave battle.”
For the completists amongst y...
PINS - Rule Fifty: Despair
There are parts of every game when you despair and nearly give up. PINS is no different. We note that the maker of the game never got very far with the rules. But he was too busy dreaming his forces and maps up to think too much about despa...
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Writer and artist. I live in NL and run the Museum of Photocopies. Debut novel Flower Factory (2022, Ortac Press). I write for The Quietus & others. What I can’t draw, I write and what I can’t write, I draw.
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