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<\/a>At the start of the game, place one of your tokens onto one starting square<\/strong>. Then, each player rolls 1 die. The person with the highest roll starts the game. Play proceeds to left of the starting player.<\/p>\n The goal of the game is to reach the Mother Geyser<\/strong>, and hold it through the end of a round.<\/p>\n A round consists of all players taking one turn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n In each player’s turn they will move one piece one square<\/strong> in any orthogonal direction. Diagonal moves are not allowed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If a player lands on a geyser, they may place a new token on the board<\/strong> in any permissible square around that geyser. You may not place this new token on a square occupied by another player.<\/p>\n When a player claims a geyser, they must leave at least one piece on that geyser at all times<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Two tokens from the same player may occupy the same square at the same time<\/strong>.<\/p>\n You may “battle<\/strong>” with another player by moving your token into a square they occupy. In this event, each player rolls one 6-sided die and adds the number of geysers they control. Whoever has the highest number wins, and the loser removes that token from the board. \u00a0The winning player now occupies the contested square.<\/p>\n In the event of a tie<\/strong>, the attacking player has the option to retreat to the square he previously occupied, and his turn is over. The attacking player also has the option to try the attack again until one side loses, or the attacking player chooses to retreat.<\/p>\n At the end of the first round, the player who started the game rolls two 6-sided die. Add the two numbers together, and this determines which “ring” of geysers fires off, destroying any tokens occupying that geyser. For example, if a player occupies a 6\/8, and the roll is two 4s, he must remove the token he has placed on that geyser. This is known as the Geyser Firing Phase.<\/strong><\/p>\n After the geysers have fired off<\/strong>, the player who went first passes the dice to his left and that person will roll for the next Geyser Firing Phase. After he has rolled, he will pass the dice to his left and so on until the game is over.<\/p>\n In order to move into the Mother Geyser, a player must control at least three normal geysers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n If a player has one token occupying the Mother Geyser after the Geyser Firing Phase, that player is declared the winner.<\/strong><\/p>\n Comments are always appreciated.<\/p>\n This has been cross-posted to the Ringling Game Design Club blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n A simple and elegant board game heavily dependent upon strategy with a subtle hint of chance developed to be played in the world of an ever-shrinking island.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[23,176,179,177,72,175,178],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","tag-board-game","tag-game","tag-game-design-club","tag-game-jam","tag-gdc","tag-geyser","tag-world-jam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":930,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oztalay.com\/matt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Creative](\"http:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-nc-nd\/3.0\/88x31.png\")
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\nGeyser – The Game<\/span> by Matthew Oztalay, Tony Sladky, Eli Allen, Garrett Stephens<\/a> is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License<\/a>.
\nBased on a work at oztalay.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"