In the game of Reversi one player is represented by the suited side of piecepack components while the other player is represented by the unsuited side of piecepack components. A reversi-friendly piecepack design makes it easier to distinguish between the suited and unsuited sides of piecepack components. We also show how to play reversi with a piecepack stackpack.

Some demos of chess-ranked piecepacks as well as the starting diagrams of several chess variants playable with a piecepack.

The orthodox piecepack ranks are a tad abstract and my toddler son is Chinese-American so I think a Chinese Zodiac ranked piecepack could be a design that is a little more approachable for my son. The Chinese Zodiac‘s 12 animals are divided into 4 trines so we’ll make a piecepack using all the animals from two of the trines as ranks and another piecepack using the remaining animals from the other two trines as ranks. For suits we’ll use the Five Elements: Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, and Water.

The Rainbow Deck by Chen Changcai is a cardgame system that can be used to play hundreds of games. It has 12 suits divided by 6 suit symbols with each suit symbol having a dark and light color associated with it. It is straightforward to make six-suited piecepacks to use as an accessory to the Rainbow Deck.

A demo of emulating of Daniel Ajoy‘s Dingbats suited PiecePack Design Variation using piecepackr.

For a number of reasons the default piecepack made by piecepackr does not comply with the Anatomy of a Piecepack standard. But not to fear - one can easily configure a piecepack that looks like one of the original piecepacks.

This is the demo of the six piecepacks that were included in the “dual piecepacks” proof-of-concept: one piecepack-suited piecepack, one latin-suited piecepack (inverted color scheme), two french-suited piecepacks (one ‘black’ suits, one ‘white’ suits), and two swiss-suited piecepacks (one dark grayscale color scheme, one light grayscale color scheme).

A demo and description of piecepackr‘s default piecepack design.