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Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2004 07:37 AM UTC:

Thanks for pointing out the fact - that I should have thought of given the
surname - that the names originated in a different language. It has JUST
saved the variant a rating of poor from me. Out of curiosity, what are the
original names? In English hex means a spell, so the pun does survive
translation. You have still not responded to the point about about having
only two pieces of the colourbound type, but I notice that the colour not
covered by them is that of the centre cell. Is this deliberate?
	While agreeing that an inventor should not rate their own variants I can
think of circumstances where multiple ratings are valid, which I have used
myself: (1) cancelling out a previous rating after a change of mind or
reading the rules more carefully; (2) uprating a Good to Excellent after a
change of mind; (3) adding a second Excellent as a tribute for inspiring a
further variant by the commentator. Does it really take as many as 9
Excellents to cancel out 10 Poors? I had assumed that it would take only
5.