Board Gamers Poker Chip Interest Thread (3 Viewers)

I have to say these are perfect, personally i like the color coordinated labels. Yes progressive edge spots would be better, but i would buy these in a heartbeat, exactly what we (18xx player) are looking for unless you wanna use my chip sample set, LOL.
 

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I'd definitely be interested in a set of ~400 following bgg user clearclaw's suggested distribution. I'm not a huge fan of the inlays though, I think they are too busy with too much fine detail. I also prefer much more diverse edge spots and a better progression. There are some examples above which look great.

Affordable labels in different denominations that we can put on blanks is also an interesting idea. Even just having 20s available on more sets than just Dunes would be a huge improvement.
 
I just had to play some more with the Poker Chip Design Tool.

Here's another set suggestion:

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White - 1s, Red - 5s, Blue - 10s (optional), Yellow - 20s, Green - 50s (optional & non-standard color for the denomination), Black - 100s, Lavender - 500s, Chocolate - 2,000s
 
I think we all know that gray 20's are the standard. I can see yellow being an option with blanks and stickers. If we wanted something other than 18xx standard, with gray 20's, we wouldnt need this project with plenty of blank yellow chips on the market.
 
TrainGamer said:
I just had to play some more with the Poker Chip Design Tool.

Here's another set suggestion:

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White - 1s, Red - 5s, Blue - 10s (optional), Yellow - 20s, Green - 50s (optional & non-standard color for the denomination), Black - 100s, Lavender - 500s, Chocolate - 2,000s
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I like your progressions and the yellow 20. I'd prefer to see 50's in a different shade of blue and save green for optional 25's.
 
Hi! Just registered to post that I am definitely interested in this set (~400 chip range).

I was quite lucky to stumble across this on boardgamegeek. I would imagine that many gamers don't know it is being proposed, but would likely be interested (assuming they didn't have all their appetites filled up with $500,000 worth of Iron Clays).

Thoughts:

- I like the overall design
- I strongly prefer the color-coordinated inlays
- Gray for the 20 is fine, yellow would work (better?) too
- I would definitely want some green 25s also, to be able to use these for poker or for gaming (also some gamers I have played with have adapted just fine to using denominated 25s instead of 20s and might still be interested in this set but would definitely want those 25s!)
- I'm not a slave to edge spot progression, but still prefer it and would not prefer vastly different denominations to share similar spot patterns (as the 20s and 2000s show now...not the the 2000s come out a lot...)
- Every single gamer is going to have their own strong opinion on how many of each chip to have. If the manufacturer can assist in helping you to provide 20 chip increments rather than 25, people are going to find that helpful for their customization

Thanks and following the development of these with interest.
 
BromIronfist said:
I like your progressions and the yellow 20. I'd prefer to see 50's in a different shade of blue and save green for optional 25's.
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Thanks for your kind words.

I'd be fine with green 25s as long as I could get them blank to use as 50s.

raynmanas said:
I do think you are going to want to consider adding at least labels for $2, $10, $25, $50, and $5000 and selling blanks. A lot of board games utilize different denoms, so customizable options after the base set is going to make these a lot more desirable. After seeing the fast response over on the Reddit thread, combined with the overall dissatisfaction of the offerings from the Iron Clays Kickstarter (a competitor chip if you aren't familiar), you are going to be able to sell a lot of these if you additionally offer blanks with labels and move further away from the standard poker set appearance.
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If they follow raynmanas' suggestion for offering blank chips with denomination label sheets, I'd like to see them offer whites, reds, blues, yellows, greens, blacks, purples, and another color. I'm OK with using gray for twenties, but I would prefer yellow.

I'm fine with the base chip colors offered, but I'm not too fond of most of the edge spots. For me, most of the chips have too many edge spots, the fives and 100s are the exceptions. The edge spots on the gray twenties look nice other than there being too many of them. I dislike the colors of most of the others. If anyone looks to the edge spots for clues as to denomination, they'll be confused. The edge spots jump from 8 stripes in two colors, to 4 triangles each split with a contrasting line, to 8 triangles in two colors, to six sets of two stripes in two colors, to eight two color stripes, to four triangles with four intervening sticks, and back to eight triangles in two colors.

I've got a sample set of Majestics on its way to me. The edge spots on the Majestics aren't really what I want either, but they are much better to me than those on these chips. Since the edge spot patterns on the Majestics are all the same, I can use blank Majestics in any color progression for denominations I want without being confused by the edge spot progression jumping around. Unfortunately, the black Majestics are out of stock.

I do want to say I appreciate Apache considering this project. One of my biggest objectives for a set of chips is that they don't look like something I'd find in a casino. I think the inlays in Apache's initial post convey a lot of what I'm looking for, chips that take their cues from currency. I hope they will tone down the edge spots so they look more like the overall art of the chips following the currency cues also.
 
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Here's the previous set with grays for twenties and orange for 2,000s. I made the greens darker so they wouldn't look the same as the grays when viewed in grayscale. I also added light chocolate stripes to the orange chip.

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So, I'm not big on the poker chip scene. Is there a way we can sign up to a list with Apache to be notified of this?

I have my own set I like, but would want to extend it with a couple sleeves of higher denominations perhaps.
 
I am interested in these chips. I do not like the casino looks, and would love some clay chips. I am guessing I would be in for about 500 between a gaming bank and a poker bank.
 
In the recent "Iron Clay" kickstarter, you could not customize your denominations unless you paid some gigantic fee, like $20 or $30. These I'm guessing you would have to purchase in units of 25, but could buy whatever you like. Which is very nice.
 
Apache Poker Chips, I'm sure there are others here who deliberately passed on the Iron Clays in anticipation of this coming to fruition at some point in the future. Even if it takes some time to get a good set produced, it's better to save the money now, and apply it towards a clean, crisp 18xx set -- rather than slippery, unfamiliar-colored game chips.
 
20 chips per sleeve instead of 25 would be interesting. Less waste that way I’ve found, though of course a manufacturer wants you to buy as much waste as possible.
 
I am pretty sure the labels will all be black instead of different colors for different denominations. The main reason is because I will also be selling blank chips and labels. A red "5" label would look bad on the purple chip. If all the labels are all one color they are interchangeable.
 
Apache said:
I am pretty sure the labels will all be black instead of different colors for different denominations. The main reason is because I will also be selling blank chips and labels. A red "5" label would look bad on the purple chip. If all the labels are all one color they are interchangeable.
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I like that look better anyways. Plus that way could get some yellows for the $20 pieces.

What in your estimation of the probability of this happening?
 
Apache said:
I am pretty sure the labels will all be black instead of different colors for different denominations. The main reason is because I will also be selling blank chips and labels. A red "5" label would look bad on the purple chip. If all the labels are all one color they are interchangeable.
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Color matching does look better though. Any possibility of color-matched labels for regular chips and black for blanks?
 
For 20c a chip you can get custom labels in whatever color you like from Gear Labels. That's a frequent option with blank china clay chips.
 

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