"All right," he says, "it's like this - we give everybody a bowl of coins, no extraordinaries, just the elemental blessings. The first person puts down a coin in the middle of the - floor," he gestures to the empty space within the loose circle of people in the room, "or table if there is one, whatever. The second person has to put down a coin that's the same element, but a different blessing. The next person has to put down a coin that's the same element as everything on the table, but not the same blessing as any of them."

He pauses for breath, then continues, "If it gets around to somebody who can't do that, then they have to take all the coins that are sitting there, and keep 'em in a shame pile next to their bowl. Then the person after them gets to pick a coin to put down and start a new chain. If somebody actually manages to finish a whole row of eight, I'm not sure what to do with the coins in that case but I think I'd like to let that player keep them in an, I dunno, glory pile, 'cause I bet that's going to be hard. We keep going until, mm, until one player runs out of coins - because then the players before them would just keep feeding their shame pile for the rest of the game if we kept going. And then whoever has the smallest shame pile wins. And if we do the glory pile thing, I guess those just count for the opposite of the shame pile - if you have a glory pile with eight coins, and a shame pile with ten, that's the same as having a shame pile with two. Make sense now?"