[Icehouse] Martian Coasters Question - Seeking Other's Thoughts

[Daniel W. Johnson]

At 15:44 -0600 2006-12-16, Timothy Hunt wrote:
>Let me give an example:
>
>http://flickr.com/photos/timotab/324215956/
>
>Daniel's question is
>>"You can't
>>use three movement points to move your pawn three spaces in the
>>direction of one of its current arrows?"
>
>Using the picture above, looking at the blue pawn, there is an arrow
>pointing "south".  If I rolled a 2, could I look at that arrow, and
>move the blue pawn on to the red pawn?  The answer is no, as the space
>between the two pawns has no south-facing arrow.  You'd move the pawn
>one square south, and then look again so see which directions you're
>allowed to go, then move one square, and look again.
>
>That, I believe, is what Daniel means by "one space at a time".  Not
>"one space per turn".

Exactly.  There is no question that (for example) red could use 2 
movement points to put the red pawn on top of the blue pawn in your 
picture.  My clarification was, as you point out, about using 2 
movement points to put the blue pawn on top of the red pawn.

Rather than use the photo from the MC website and rules, maybe I 
should have talked about using three movement points from the 
starting position to jump a pawn to the middle of the next coaster.
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