Entanglement


Entanglement 

by Alain Bellon

(a strategy game for 2-4 players)

 

In the World of Ñot (ny-oh-t) communications enterprises battle to establish networks across the lands. Competition is so fierce that if a company stagnates, their competitors take an insurmountable lead and corner the market. Build your net and never stop!

 

A game in progress. If it's red's turn, blue just lost!

 

Requirements 

1 piece of paper 

Writing instruments (pen, pencil, crayons), one per player, plus one more to draw the board (optional). 

 

Setup 

Draw a large curvy line, like a doodle, using all of the page. Make sure it loops and crosses over itself many times (say 30 crossings for a 2 player game). Draw it lightly or in a color not used by the players. 

Each line crossing is a node. Each player chooses a node near their side, on the outer perimeter of the curve as their starting point.

 

Rules 

Players take turns to move from one node to another, one at a time, along the line segment that connects them. The player MARKS the line segment as part of her net by drawing over it with her marker color. 

Players may move to ANY CONTIGUOUS node as long as they move along an UNMARKED line segment. 

 

Winning 

A player is eliminated if he/she cannot move to another node through an unmarked line segment. 

The last player standing is the winner. 

The last player does not have to make a move if all other players have been eliminated. 

 

Advanced Edition 

Each player has 2 Split actions. (Write down the numbers 1,2 on the paper) 

If a player calls up “Split” during his turn, he picks any node in his net and moves from there.

Mark the used splits by crossing over the numbers.