Martian Chess
Martian Chess is a 2-4 player game that uses Icehouse pieces, requiring one stash per player, and a chessboard. It was one of the games included in Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set and Pyramid Arcade.
Much like its namesake, Martian Chess is a game of capturing pieces. Like Chess, Martian Chess is turn based, and played on a chessboard. In both games, players move and capture individual pieces, and each type of piece has distinct moving rules.
However, Martian Chess differs from Chess in critical ways:
Piece ownership is determined not by color but by location.
Instead of capturing a specific piece, winning is determined by points, making it possible to force the end of the game and still win with no pieces left in that player’s control.
Fiche technique
- Nombre minimum de joueurs
- 2
- Nombre maximum de joueurs
- 4
- âge
- 8+
- Temps de jeu
- 15 - 30 minutes
- Langue
- English
- Dépendante du langage
- Pas de texte
- Un jeu de
- Andrew Looney
- Combien de joueurs?
- Pour 2
- Combien de joueurs?
- Petits groupes (2-4)
- Thème
- Abstrait
- Illustré par
- Eileen Tjan
- Illustré par
- Andrew Looney