memento ludis
2024 Feb 19th
The game board
consists of four triangles each with seven points which are connected by lines (three corner points, three median points and one middle point). The game figures stand on the points.The four triangles are arranged as a big triangle. It is possible to leave and enter the game board at the corner points of each triangle. If a figure leaves the board from a corner point of the big triangle it enters again on one of the other corner points of the big triangle or on one point of the opponing constellation of three corner points. If a figure leaves the board from one point of the constellation of three corner points it enters again at one point of the other constellations of three corner points or on the opponing corner point of the big triangle.
Aim of Game
As soon as a playing person has lost all their game stones they are out of the game. The playing person wins who:
1) first owns the middlepoints of the four triangles OR
2) first owns the middlepoint and the three median points of any single triangle OR
3) is the last with figures on the board.
Start
9 color markers for each player (each a unique color) 11 game stones total for 2-3 players and 15 game stones total for 4 players. These can be brought into the game by every playing person. The game figures are stacked out of game stones and a color marker for the playing person. The game starts with an empty board and the row of playing persons is set clockwise. The person who starts the game is chosen and starts to place ONE SINGLE (one gamestone with a colormarker) which can be placed on ANY point!Actions of a player
Each player is to complete exactly one action in a round. The layout of pieces on the game board must change after each turn!
1) bring in TWO new figures into the game
This is only possible if there are still 2 game stones and 2 color markers available. NEVER on a middlepoint, NEVER onto the inner triangle, NEVER beating another player's piece and ONLY as a Single.
2) turn a triangle
This is ONLY POSSIBLE if the previous player did not turn a triangle! It is also not allowed for a playing person to turn a triangle two times in a row!
3) move a figure
and may beat a figure. ALL figures can be beaten by moving on top of them (this also applies to a player's own figures). The color marker of the beaten figure is put away and can be used in the game again.The winning stack stacks on top of the defeated one. There is a new stack beneath the winning color marker. If a stack is higher than three, three game stones are put away and can be used in game again.
The Single (1 game stone + 1 color marker) moves from a point to the next point.
The Double (2 game stones + 1 color marker) moves from a point to the next point and can move on a straight line as long as it should or there is a resistor. The cornering of a line counts as a resistor, a player's own figure and an opposing player's figure is a resistor (and can be beaten). The leaving and entering at the corner points of the big triangle and at the corner points of the inner triangle happens on a straight line without a cornering!
The Tripple (3 game stones + 1 color marker) can move from a point to the next point or from the middle point of a triangle to the middle point of another triangle or from a middle point of a triangle to the three corners of the big triangle.
4) split a figure
As long as there are color markers of the own color the Double and the Tripple can be split into new figures onto FREE fields. The new figures are placed as the Tripple or the Double could move. The Double becomes two Singles and the Tripple becomes a Double and a Single or three Singles. The field on which the previous figure was standing has to stay free after the splitting!