Black Hole

Black Hole

Intro:

This game puts a cosmic twist on well-known board games like Candyland and Monopoly. In the game, players are rocket ships that are falling towards a black hole. As the game progresses, the ships move in a spiral, descending closer and closer to the massive light-sucking abyss. Along the path towards the black hole however, there are spots of special fuel that allow the ships to move up the board, back to the start. There are also spots that have stronger gravitational force however, pulling ships down the board faster than others. There are also extra-special spaces that allow players to slingshot around the black hole, land back on the space they started their turn on, but instead of moving towards the black hole with every consecutive roll, they move their spaceship closer to the starting line. As soon as players land on another gravity spot however, the direction is reversed back towards the black hole. The objective of the game is to escape the board by landing on or past the starting space, allowing a player’s ship to escape the black hole’s gravitational field. If a player escapes, the game continues until everyone either escapes, or is swallowed up by the black hole’s gravitational pull.

Rules:

1. Each player has a model rocket ship, used as a place marker
2. A spiral-shaped board (as pictured) is required to play
3. A standard 6-sided die is also required
4. Orange spaces signify moving back 3 spaces
5. Green spaces signify moving back 5 spaces
6. Blue pieces signify a slingshot around the black hole, resulting in the player now moving the opposite direction (towards the start) until they hit a gray piece, or escape the board.
7. Gray pieces signify increases in gravity (forcing the player to move 10 spaces towards the black hole)
8. Players begin by rolling to see who begins the game. The highest number goes first
9. As players role, their objective is to land on fuel stops, allowing them to move back up the board, trying to escape the black hole
10. If a player reaches the black hole, their ship is lost, and they lose the game
11. The game continues until all ships have either been swallowed up, or escaped the board