Talk:Three musketeers (game)

Diagram

With the "Lynx-friendly" diagram, the issue is to use a modular diagram so that there can be a text equivalent for each square? --Stellmach 15:51, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

The current diagram is my attempt to have something that doesn't just look like dots but still meets the lynx-friendly thing. I went with a graphic design similar to the Draughts page, though actually a little closer to the Amerian Checkers Federation diagrams, only still not so garish. --Stellmach 20:12, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Requested move 10 June 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. There was consensus for the move; it is an informal game, not something more formal like a trademarked product. Based on WP:GAMECAPS and the WP:SILENCE of those who did not oppose, I proceed with the move. (non-admin closure) RodRabelo7 (talk) 08:23, 17 July 2024 (UTC)

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Three Musketeers (game) → Three musketeers (game) – Per WP:GAMECAPS, we don't cap game names unless they are trademarked (e.g. product names), as Dungeons & Dragons is. This one is not (I search the US trademark database, and didn't it). It's more like Texas hold 'em. Dicklyon (talk) 01:37, 10 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BD2412 T 03:08, 17 June 2024 (UTC) — Relisting. BilledMammal (talk) 20:25, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Not quite like Texas hold 'em, as "Texas" would be uppercased in sentence case. Is "Three Musketeers" itself a proper name? This n-gram shows that lowercased is often used, even though the common name "Three Musketeers" is much more familiar. On this one Dicklyon might be right, so Support until someone changes my mind, maybe something having to do with the uppercased copyright. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:01, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

Probably very few of those in the n-gram stats are about the game, as there are so many more common uses, including lots of titles. And yes, Texas hold 'em was not the best example; six-plus hold 'em is a bit more parallel here. Dicklyon (talk) 04:18, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

I was just checking the n-grams to make sure lowercased "three musketeers" was often used to refer to the Three Musketeers. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:39, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

• This is not a traditional game like chess or checkers or Texas hold 'em ("little is known about the invention of Texas hold 'em") or six-plus hold 'em, but rather something designed by a specific author and introduced in one particular book in 2011. Should it really matter whether someone officially trademarked it? —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 21:37, 11 June 2024 (UTC)

Support: Agree with BarrelProof that maybe trademarks shouldn't matter, but Three Musketeers sounds like it describes a product, and Three musketeers sounds like it describes a notable but informal game known by its rules. Whether the game is notable is a separate issue, but Three musketeers sounds right. Mrfoogles (talk) 23:23, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

Support - per nom. Primergrey (talk) 22:06, 9 July 2024 (UTC)

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