> Dracimas, if you're willing to reach back into the early-90's bag of tricks, there's a number of pretty good -- and IMHO in some cases, excellent -- games for an IPX network connection. For example, there's Super Tetris (multi-player Tetris in various incarnations, including the Japanese multi one I'm thinking of); Reversi: The Eclipse; and several multi-player games by a German company called Dongleware: Oxyd, Per.Oxyd, and Bolo.
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> I've raved to Sam about the Dongleware games before, because they are so incredibly fun (you and your friend manipulate two glass marbles with characteristics so realistic that they appear to be jumping off the screen -- each puzzle level covers several screen's worth. The marbles rattle over brickwork and roll hollowly over wood, slip on glass and ice, can turn invisible, get chased by ghosts, bounce through turnstiles, fly off into space if you hit a region of anti-gravity or magnetism, and the 200+ puzzles are ingenious and engaging). Unfortunately, I don't know how Dongleware's multiplay for Oxyd will hold up playing under anything after Windows 95a.
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> There may by a similar marble game for multi called "Marble Mania" but it's a pale shadow (in turns of fun-factor) compared to what the Dongleware games achieved.
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> Newer games include Scrabble, Virtual Pool, Worms, and Descent (Not entirely sure if Descent is an online multigame only, or IPX LAN compatible). If Descent can be played on a network, I'd recommend trying that. You're still shooting things, but they're not HUMAN at least, and the game is extremely fun because it takes full advantage of a null-gravity environment with all the flying swoops and curvy corkscrew tunnels. It's great training for thinking upside-down and sideways in *real* 3-D. But other than that, I'm out of ideas.
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> Wolf "How about an IPX Mahjong game?" spirit

We play virtual pool now and love it. Just starting to get old being the only one we have to play. The marble game sound good, I'll see if I can find it. Along with the other Dongleware you mentioned. I'm trying to "acquire" Descent. It's pretty cheap when you can still find it. I love that one and yes, it is LAN capable. So is MachWarrior and I don't think there would be too much problem with that one either, but then my wife might have a different view of it. But thanks, I'll take a look.

Drac "And Mahjongg over LAN would be *killer*" imaS