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Betelgeuse: The Celestial Strategy Game
Betelgeuse: The Celestial Strategy Game
by (Self-Published) (1985)
Player Count
2 to 4

Player Ages
10+
Categories
  • Abstract Strategy
  • Science Fiction
  • Designers
  • Philip Zweig
  • Mechanisms
  • Hex-and-Counter
  • Pattern Building
  • Dice Rolling
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    Description

    Betelgeuse is an abstract game with a space theme; the 397-space hexagonal board depicts Betelgeuse in the center and six other stars near the corners. Players have a supply of stars in their colors.

    On a turn a player rolls two dice and places one star with each them; the number rolled determines how many spaces away the new star must be from a printed star (at the start of the game) or a player's own star (later on).

    Getting three of one's own stars adjacent in a triangle destroys opposing stars in a certain radius and prevents further play there.

    Each player also has a single black hole which can be placed to cause additional destruction, and there is a neutral comet piece which also destroys things; the comet is moved when a player rolls doubles.

    There is an advanced game in which players form "solar systems" by encircling empty spaces or the printed stars.

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