10 stars

5. Continue taking turns

Game design: Madoka Kitao flipping one of your tiles
and placing it adjacent
to any tile already placed.
For 2 players, ages 4 and up. Play time: 1–10 minutes
6. When a player manages to
get 10 or more stars 9
◊ What’s in the box
in a straight row
10 silver tiles 4 3 2 1 (orthogonally or diagonally),
that player wins.
10 golden tiles 4 3 2 1
◊ This is a win!
◊ How to play

1. Shuffle both tile sets separately, face down.

2. Decide which player is which colour, and who goes first.

3. First player flips one of his tiles

and places it in the middle.

4. The other player now draws one of his tiles and places
it adjacent to the tile on the board. Adjacent means both
orthogonally and diagonally.
x
b One way is to decide victor is to take turns going first, and the winner
a c
* Place it like figure a, b och c. It’s not allowed to place it
non-adjacent, like in figure x.
* If neither player has achieved 10 stars in a row when all
tiles are placed, the game is a draw.
This is a shorter version of the classical Japanese game gomoku-nara-
be, with a small luck element added. The starting player has a slight
advantage, so see to that both players get a chance of going first.
is the one who wins two games in a row.
This game’s charm is the probability of your remaining tiles, and your
ability to adapt to that.