Game objective

Build up blocks on the domino construction, but make sure they stay in balance! The game ends whenever a player causes the fall down of some blocks or the construction..

Basic setup

Before actually starting the game, one has to build the domino-construction first. The construction exists of 6 levels of each 4 dominoblocks. Each level has a base of 2 dominoblocks put on there side as walls and the 2 other placed horizontally on top of them as a kind of roof. All these levels are put on top of each other so that a 6-story high ‘tower’ is raised.
The 24 wooden blocks are put aside next to the construction.

Game play

At the start of a player’s turn one takes a wooden block from the pile and places it (horizontally or vertically) on the construction. This can be done in several ways, but some rules have to be respected:

- a block can only be placed through the 2 top levels of the construction. Further construction starts from there (even though there’s space for 2, only 1 block can be placed through a level)
- no blocks can rest on the toproof of the construction.
- during placement of a block, one is allowed to move maximally 2 other blocks
- placing blocks horizontally on top of each other is not allowed, unless the angle between the 2 blocks is more the 60 degrees

If all available blocks are on the construction, the game play slightly differs. One now has to take away a wooden block (not the last one added) from the construction and place it somewhere else on the construction.
The game ends whenever a player causes the fall down of some blocks of the construction.

Alternative playing modes

height limitation: there’s no limitation in placing blocks vertically, but one is not allowed to build ‘arcs’ on top op each other, unless the angle between the two arcs is more than 60 degrees.
An ‘arc’ is constructed of 2 vertical wooden blocks which support a horizontal one

construction height: instead of 6 levels, one can choose the build only 3, 4 or 5 levels, making the balancing a bit easier :-)

domino construction twist: the top level of the domino construction is rotated 90°. The game play stays the same

© 2005 Joushi (Tom Wuytack)
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