Escape from Atlantis
Atlantis is a board game by Julian and C. Courtland Smith for 2 to 4 people from 8 years.
It first appeared in 1982 as Survive! Parker Brothers in the U.S. and bilingual than Survive! Survivre! in Canada. The island in this version consists only of plates made of cardboard. Waddington Games in 1986 introduced a new version with three-dimensional island of plastic parts under the title Escape from Atlantis in Britain. This version also appeared in Canada at Waddington Sanders. 1988 Schmidt Spiele acquired a license for the production of Atlantis in Europe. Selecta Spel en Hobby a Dutch and Joker a Finnish edition appeared. 1996/97 was published by Waddingtons and Parker, which now both belong to Hasbro, a new edition in different languages.
Description
The game lasts about 50 minutes and is designed to simulate the rescue of the people of the gradually sinking island of Atlantis. Aim of the game is its own game pieces to bring all to the country and to prevent the other players from doing this.
Accessories
The playing field is divided into a number of hexagonal fields. In the four corners there are coral reefs that serve the citizens of Atlantis later as bank -saving.
First, the island, consisting of gray (mountains ), green (forest ) and yellow ( beach ) is built plastic parts. Alternately now represent the players their twelve figures ( different colored pawn ) to the parts. The Wheel of Fortune (there are no dice ) is a manually operated display to use dolphins, sharks or sea monsters.
Expiration
Is the island inhabited, the disaster begins. Per train each player has 3 movement points. He can jump his characters into the water and then allowed to swim, sit in a boat or riding on a dolphin. The other players try to prevent this by the use of sea monsters, octopuses and sharks. Each train is sinking part of the island (to be removed from the board ) so that it becomes increasingly difficult to safely perform his characters to the mainland. However, always first drop the unpopulated parts, from outside to inside. On the bottom of the sunken portion of a symbol is to see what the event is determined ( strudel, shark, octopus, etc.) which now enters. By turning the wheel of fortune can move animals and approach boats bring closer. A boat summarizes three Atlanteans and can certainly be occupied by different participants. However, we must only determine about who has the majority in the boat. If it is equal, everyone is allowed to steer the boat when it is on the train.
Impact of sea creatures
- Sharks kill floating Atlanteans, unless they are accompanied by a dolphin. Passengers in boats have nothing to fear.
- Kraken destroy boats, the occupants can continue to move floating.
- Sea monsters destroy boats and kill the swimmers.
- On the dolphins can ride fast on land. They protect the swimmers from all other creatures.
Gambling
The game ends when all participants have saved all of their still-living characters.
Variations
A variation of the game, which is, however, not provided for in the rules of the game may also include a cooperative element, namely, when all the players together hold up to the rigors of fate and try to save all the inhabitants.