The ICE-7 Misprint Advisory
Great though the ICE-7 packets are, there was a major screw-up
in the first print run of the cards. Every 7th packet contains
2 cards with messed up backs. Fortunately, the faulty cards are
among the 3 "extra info" cards and not on any of the
7 reference cards, but the mistakes may cause confusion nonetheless.
The cards that are wrong are the first two in the pack. The
top card, the ICE-7 title card, should have an advertisement
for Icehouse stuff on the back, with the title "Stuff You
Need." The ones that are wrong have a redundant copy of
the back of the Icehouse reference card. You can tell you have
one of the misprints if your ICE-7 card says "Illegal Plays"
at the top of side 2.
The other messed up card is the one with info about the website
on one side and a chart of 13 other Icehouse games on the back.
In the misprint copies, that chart has been replaced by the backside
of the Martian Chess rules reference card.
Hopefully, all of this will be moot to you. As soon as we
discovered the problem, we devised a way of determining if a
packet is good or bad, and pulled all of the bad ones out of
circulation. (Well, most of them anyway... one out of every 7
of the first 1000 Zendo sets will also contain a misprinted ICE-7
pack.)
Here's our method of checking for the misprint without opening
the packet. It's simply a matter of taking a peak at the backside
of the top card. Use your fingernail to pry the edge of the card
up enough to glimpse the back, and look for the telltale word
"Illegal" in the upper right hand corner.
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