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Nub's the word
By: JonBen
Those 52 black and white disks may look completely smooth and identical, but there is one notable feature. They all possess -to differing degrees- small nubs of plastic, which I assume are a byproduct of the molding process the black and white cover pieces go through.
These nubs can be used to your advantage. I will describe one situation in which I will often use a nub, but I am sure y’all can come up with a bunch more, the most important thing is to be aware of them and be willing to use them to your advantage.
EXAMPLE:
A leaner (standing disk) has just been converted resulting in two foundations in close proximity. You now want to play a leaner directly between those two foundations, but the active disk is prone to rolling towards one of the foundation disks. You can use the nub to help stabilize the placement. When you are attempting to place the disk take note of which way it is attempting to roll, then turn the disk in your hand so that a nub is positioned such that it will make contact with the playing surface if the disk rolls in its favored direction. The nub will act to stop the disk from rolling away from this placement.
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Excellent! I was kind of hoping that one of our players would post this. I never did because I didn’t want my primary Polarity nemesis, Squeegy, to know to know about it. (just kidding)
After our first run of test discs, we spent some time testing the game. We noticed that there was a plastic ‘burr’ of sorts at the injection site on each disc half. At first, we saw this is a manufacturing flaw to be sorted out with our molder… After some play with the discs, we discovered that these burrs could be useful as a strategic feature. By placing the burr downward on the mat, the disc can be anchored into place.
One warning, however: Because the anchoring effect can be so, well, anchoring, it can be VERY difficult to convert an anchored piece. Sometimes impossible. In fact, a strongly anchored piece will almost always flip over to your opponents color when a conversion is attempted.
Use this great tip with great care.
- The Polarity Geek
I use them as an anchor. I plant the nub into the canvas mat to keep the bottom from sliding on my high angle disks. Obviously I don’t want to do this on the disk I plan on converting as it would make it more difficult to slide away.
I haven’t decided if this is cheating(term maybe a little too harsh) or just using the pieces to their maximum ability. I’ve heard of people shaving them off to make them all smooth.
Awesome. I have been looking for a good use of that "feature" of the pieces for a while now, butI never came up with anything worthwile. I will have to try this…
Rated this tip: 8
interesting . . .