Blockade
Designed by Kristin Looney
What You Need
• An Icehouse set and the Black Ice expansion pieces• Four dice: one red, one green, one yellow, and one blue• Optional: A 5 ×
5 grid to setup the board on• Number of Players: 2• Playing Time: 10 minutes
Setup
Arrange 25 Larges in a 5 × 5 grid, as shown below. Then put one Small of the same color ontoevery Large (except for the Clears.) Stack up all the Mediums on the corners (upper left corner:Green, upper right: Red, lower left: Yellow, lower right: Blue).Place the Black pieces to the side, they will be used during the game. The remaining Clear pieceswill not be used. Then, one player chooses to play the hot colors (Yellow and Red), while theother player plays the cool colors (Green and Blue). To start the game, each player rolls two dice,rerolling ties. The highest roll goes first.
Play
On your turn, roll the two dice corresponding to your two colors. You have a number of movementpoints equal to the number rolled, to be used on the color of pieces corresponding to the color of the die. So a 5 rolled on a blue die means 5 points of blue movement. Each movement pointallows you to move a piece of that color one square, following the Rules of Movement.
Rules of Movement
• You may divide these points up amongst any number of pieces, in any order. So you may movea piece one square, then move another piece, then come back and move the original piece,should you so desire.• You may move pieces in any direction, including diagonal.• A piece may move over any of your or your opponent’s pieces, regardless of size and color.However, a piece may
not
move over squares of your opponent’s colors that have beenblockaded (capped with a Black piece.).• A piece must end its movement for the turn on one of the following: a piece of its own color of equal or lesser size, a Clear piece, or a Black piece on top of a piece of its own color providedthat the piece is smaller than the Black piece.• If
both
of your dice show numbers of three or less, then the two dice may be combined together and used for either one of your two colors.• You do not need to use all your points of movement.• Large pieces may not move.Blockade is an Icehouse game (
http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse
) – © 2001 by Kristin Looney
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