[Icehouse] 9-Player Martian Coasters

[James Hazelton]

Sounds like a fun game!  Unfortunately, I doubt I'll ever have 8 people to
play with, so I can't really playtest it.  Reading the subject line, I
figured you'd mark the Xeno coasters with an ELBS or a Zendo stone, but
doubling up like that would make it a more unique version, enhance the
strategy, and balance out the starting position problem.  Not to mention the
extra sales of Martian Coasters.

On 12/16/06, Christopher Hickman <tophu at mac.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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