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Akh Rules

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Game Components:

  • Large triangular Space Tiles (4 per player)

  • Small one-color triangular Objects (7 per player)

  • Agent pieces in the corresponding color (12 per player)

  • Moon Board (1 per player, like the Space Tiles but with a black painted edge)

Space Tiles

Objects

Agents

Moon Board(s)

{Painted Edge}

Setup:

  1. Board Creation: Players take turns placing three of their Space Tiles, one at a time, to create the Space of main play. When placing, the Space Tiles must fully align on an edge of a placed tile. Player who last took out the trash goes first. (This will be turn order for the game.)

  2. Object Placement: Distribute your objects to your opponent(s). Take turns distributing opponent's Objects into the board created. (If playing a 3+ player game, distribute your objects as evenly as possible between your opponents.)

  3. Spacefall: Any empty Space Tiles (no objects or agents) are removed. This can happen throughout the game.

  4. Spaceship Landing: Place all your agents on a large triangular Space Tile, leaving the corners empty, take turns to land this ship of agents onto an edge of the main board, aligned with another Space Tile. This is your starting position.





  5. Moon: The moon is yours and remains separate from the main board. At the beginning of the game, take one agent from your spaceship and place it at the bottom tip of your moon. As you play, place your retrieved objects and any jumped or moonshot agents into the bottom-most position of your moon.





Spaceship Landing

Examples of starts:

3 player

2 player

2 player

2 player

4 player

4 player

Taking a Turn:

Choose to move on the main board or your moon.

  • Main Board Movement: Agents can move forward or backward along the lines, jumping over other agents (including their own, you cannot jump over two or more agents at once). If an opponent's agent is jumped, they are sent to their moon at the bottom-most spot.

  • Moon Movement: The tip of the triangle is the bottom of the moon, the painted side is its edge, load the moon from the bottom with any objects or agents as they arrive. Similar to the main board, agents move and jump over others. Reaching the dark edge shoots your agent over the moon and lands you on any open space on the main Space Tile with the fewest objects.

    Special Actions:

    Object Collection: Surround your object with 3 of your agents landed to collect it. Collected objects go to your moon.

Moonshot: If an agent has no ability to move; they’re blocked by agents (can be their own or their opponents’), the blocked agent is sent to its moon (moonshot). Examples below

Object Collection

In this photo the square agent in the corner spot is moonshot.

In this photo the star agent at the corner of the blue triangle is moonshot.