So, I love designing board games; I recently designed one that's a strategy game designed for 3 players. It's got similarities to Tantrix and Quarto - everything has to have inspiration somewhere, right?
Anyway, the attached (and in the secret tag) are pictures of the pieces. The board is the thing on the right. The labels of the hexes and the pieces are simply so this can be played online.
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How the game is played is as follows:
Each player is randomly (and secretly) assigned a colour.
Each round:
- Player A chooses a piece.
- Player B chooses a hex on the board for it to be placed on.
- Player C rotates the hex to his desired orientation.
Then Player A becomes Player C, etc. for the next round.
Obviously, there is one piece left over at the end of the game, but that's kinda irrelevant. At the end of the game, each player scores one point for each hex connected to that player's colour. So, for example, if C1 was in hex 2 and C2 was in hex 5 in the same orientation that they're pictured, the player whose colour was green would get 2 points and yellow would get 1 point. Colours which belong to no player don't give anyone points. The same hex can be scored multiple times (even by the same player) and doesn't decrease in value if that happens.
Hexes A5 and B5 are special - the shaded out portions block the connected colour, and are worth no points. So if A5 were in hex 1 in the same orientation as it's pictured, Purple and Blue would get 1 point, and Red would get no points.
The game ends when all the spaces are filled.
So, any takers?
As soon as there are 3 players, I'll send PMs telling them their colours, and announce the game start. I'll update the game progress with pictures to make it easy to tell what's going on. If there is lots of interest, I'll start a second game in a second thread.
PS: Name suggestions for the game are welcomed.
EDIT: Tiebreakers:
The player tied for the most points who controls the largest contiguous area wins. If still tied, ignore that area and look at the next largest.
[Last edited by Someone Else at 01-30-2013 04:10 AM]
