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Curses! My spy network is supposed to be working for me, not against me! I forgot to tell Julia not to share details about one of the things I showed her, and then Aaron goes and puts a big blinking arrow on the wall next to her photograph, and the next thing you know, cats are exiting bags at high velocities.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/image/1338498/juliaz
So, anyway, yes, it's true. Over a month ago, while the Kickstarter campaign was still running, Mike Monical asked about PennyGems for 18xx-class railroad games. Except that pennies are too big. Yea, and dimes aren't really all that much smaller. Although #10 washers cost a lot more than a penny each, they are about 12mm in diameter, so Mike and I are testing out cute little mini-Gems to see if they'll be the major upgrade from cardboard chits that we're anticipating.
We're hoping to have a few sets ready for the Portland Oregon West Coast 18xx
Game Convention later this month. He'll certainly have some prototypes. If we're lucky, he'll have a couple of complete sets for people to play with, and if we're really lucky, he might even have some sets for sale. However, many details still need to be worked out, so I definitely can't tell you when they'll go on sale, or how much they'll cost, or nothin' else, yet. For at least the rest of this month, further news about this product will be coming from Mike, not me.
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10 backers
Sampler: Labels to make eight PennyGem tokens; one in each of the eight colors.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $10 or more
23 backers
Super-sampler: Labels for sixteen PennyGems, two each of the eight colors
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $18 or more
51 backers
Prism: Labels to make forty PennyGems; eight colors (white, red, orange,yellow, green, blue, purple, black), five tokens per color. (Not avail. for international. Canadians, as with all rewards this level and above, add $5 for shipping. Thanks.)
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $18 or more
21 backers
Quartet: Labels to make forty PennyGems; four colors (red, blue, yellow, green), ten tokens per color.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $32 or more
98 backers
Rainbow: Labels to make 80 PennyGems; eight colors, ten tokens per color.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $55 or more
84 backers
Double Rainbow: Labels to make 160 PennyGems; eight colors, twenty tokens per color.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $74 or more
14 backers
International Double Rainbow: Labels to make 160 PennyGems; eight colors, twenty tokens per color, plus 200 U.S. pennies, and international shipping.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $90 or more
20 backers
Full Spectrum: Labels to make 320 PennyGems; eight colors, forty tokens per color.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $111 or more
6 backers
International Full Spectrum: Labels to make 320 PennyGems; eight colors, forty tokens per color, plus 400 U.S. one-cent coins, and international shipping.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $140 or more
69 backers
The Color Of Magic: Labels to make 540 PennyGems: NINE colors (including the special 'hologram' prismatic diffraction tokens), sixty tokens per color.
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $175 or more
4 backers
International Color Of Magic: Labels to make 540 PennyGems: NINE colors (including the special 'hologram' prismatic diffraction tokens), sixty tokens per color, plus 700 U.S. one-cent coins, and international shipping. (Why so many extra pennies? Because some of them will be pretty dull and grimy.)
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $250 or more
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Horse of a Different Color: Labels to make 800 PennyGems in up to eight colors _of your choosing!_ Pastels, your wedding colors, eight shades of nearly-black for Gothic Game Night, or whatever other colors a CMYK printer can create. For the "International" version, add $44. If you're feeling extra clever, you can even assign different colors to the front and back of each Gem, so what you really get is 16 groups of 100 labels. (Remember, it takes two labels to make a PennyGem.) Eight groups will be a single solid color. The other eight will have one of the eight standard icons, each on a solid color.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $300 or more
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Synthetic Diamonds: Labels for 800 PennyGems, in up to eight designs of your choosing. I'll use image files that you provide to make you a personalized set of PennyGems labels, printed on either chrome or white vinyl (you choose). Note that some images might be unreproduceable due to technical limitations or content. For the "International" version, add $44.
Estimated delivery: Jun 2012Pledge $550 or more
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Breakfast At Tiffany's: An armload of gems to roll in! Labels to make 2,160 PennyGems, which is 240 Gems in each of nine colors. Add $75 for the International version (includes pennies and shipping).
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $1,000 or more
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Queen of England: So many Gems you'll need to build a tower just to store them! Labels to make 4,320 PennyGems in nine colors, 480 tokens per color. Add $102 for the International version (includes pennies and shipping).
Estimated delivery: May 2012Pledge $4,000 or more
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The Game's Afoot! Since it's hard to imagine what anybody would do with 8,640 PennyGems, we'll provide you with expert assistance. Not only will you receive nearly one thousand PennyGems in each of the nine colors, but game designer James Ernest will create a game based on your input for you to play with your new hoard. The game will be published with you receiving credit as the person who commissioned the game.
Estimated delivery: Jul 2012
Comments
Creator William on June 17, 2012
I got my order yesterday, they look fantastic! Now to stop at bank and get some rolls of pennies. Hopefully they will have rolls of new pennies.
Creator Dave Howell on June 15, 2012
@William: Well, *I*'m not planning on buying washers in bulk. And then shipping them hither and thither. At least, not if I can help it. Bleh. But maybe I'll have to.
Creator William on June 15, 2012
Dave: Well it might be worth looking into getting it cheaper from another source then, such as ebay :) Also, if your local store is local, might be worth checking at a national chain hardware store (or vice versa).
Creator Stella on June 15, 2012
@Dave: 8mm or 10mm wooden cubes in various colours, that often come with Euro-style board games. Also bought by the bagfull by people who make print and play games.
Creator Dave Howell on June 14, 2012
@Tim: What is a "Euro Cube?"
Creator Dave Howell on June 14, 2012
@William: My local hardware store has washers for about $0.10 without all that much regard to size, oddly.
Creator JP Sugarbroad on June 14, 2012
Ooo, minigems. At this rate, I'm going to get RSI from all the gem assembly!
Creator Tim Quinn on June 14, 2012
Are these the replacement for Euro Cube that we all have been hoping for?
Creator William on June 14, 2012
Shouldn't be THAT much more than a penny each. For instance, Ebay has an auction for 1000 of the #10 washers for about $20 shipped (2 cents per washer).
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Stainless-Steel-Flat-Washer-1000-PCS-10-/400105334864
Your local hardware store should be able to get them in large bulk packs if needed (they may or may not be cheaper than ebay)
Creator Julia Gosztyla Ziobro on June 14, 2012
I deleted the photos. You can delete this update, and we can all pretend that nobody knows what they're talking about. JUMBO GEMS!! Oh yeah!!
Creator William on June 14, 2012
"Image does not exist."
Now I want to see it, lol
Creator Stella on June 14, 2012
*blinks* Holy unrepeatable. Just how much value can you actually add to your copy of 1830?
...Assuming you're not replacing the paper money with real money, of course...
Of course, what's more interesting to me are the pastel designs underneath. I like what you've done with the symbol side.