[Icehouse] 9-Player Martian Coasters

[Christopher Hickman]

I was thinking about this today.  Here's how I'd do it:

The board arrangement would be black in the middle, surrounded by the  
colored coasters such that no coaster is adjacent to a coaster of the  
same color.  Put all the queens (every color from both Xeno and  
Rainbow, save either black or white) in a hat and each player draws  
their color out and places it on the center square of a coaster not  
adjacent to one of their own color (for black or white, this means a  
corner coaster).  Once everybody has their queen on the board, they  
go around the table putting their drone on somebody else's queen  
(that someone else hasn't already capped), so long as that queen is  
not on their own color.  Then once again for the pawns.  Now, let the  
games begin.  The colored ones are trying to get to one of the two  
matching coasters (and fighting with another player who's vying for  
one of those two as well).  Black (or white) only has one matching  
coaster, but has the advantage that the starting configuration favors  
black as the most accessible coaster.

Thoughts?

Topher