Hive (game)

Game of the Year 2006 - " Hit for Two " International Gamers Award 2003: Nominated Mensa Select 2006

Hive is a placement game by John Yianni for two people. For the first time it appeared in the year 2001, when publisher to 2002 Gen Four Two was founded in London. Since 2006 it is available in Germany at HUCH & friends.

Game idea

Hive is a game with perfect information with no hidden or random elements. There are eleven players each hexagonal tiles: the queen, two spiders, two beetles, ants and three three grasshopper. A game board is not required. Per train a player puts a new token onto the battlefield or pulls one of his already laid out stones to a different location. Each type of stone has its own rules by which they may draw. The player wins who manages to be the first to surround the opponent's queen on all six sides with stones.

Expiration

The first player places a freely selectable tile on the table and your opponent places a stone at an edge thereof to. In the subsequent turns more stones can be applied to the already lying stones, but just that they do not touch any edge of an opponent's stone. No later than the fourth stone, the queen must be created. Once a player has placed the queen, he may invest not only new stones, but also pull its designed stones. Here come the differences of the stones to the fore: Queen and beetles can only switch to an adjacent edge of the beetles can climb up on the insect, beside which he sits, and block it so. The ant gets as many edges far, the spider exactly three edges, and the grasshopper does not draw at all, but jumps towards one of the edges on which it rests, gone over all the stones that lie in this direction and arrives at the first vacancy.

When pulling two must be observed: at no time should a situation arise in which the being laid stones are divided into two separate areas. And one may wander about only around a corner, if the token can actually be pushed around this without having to push away other stones for it.

Once a queen is surrounded on all six sides with stones - the color is immaterial - has lost the game their owners. If a train cause both queens are included, the game ends in a draw.

Extensions

2008, the extension of Stone " Mosquito " was introduced: Each player receives an additional mosquito stone, which takes for its trains the ability to move one of the stones with which he in the starting position has direct contact. When it becomes the beetles and climbs into another stone, he remains beetle until he crawls back to normal play level down.

In October 2010, a new extension of the public was presented: the ladybug (English: Ladybug ). On the Internet BoardGameGeek Brettspieldatenbak the game inventor John Yianni organized a competition to guess the rule of the game for this new token. After the competition period, the game inventor betrayed the movement rule for the ladybug:

Loosely translated:

Naturally, it is also the ladybug enter in a turn each field only once and the train must not end on the home field, as well as, for example, applies to the spider or ant.

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