Conspirateurs
Encyclopedia
Conspirateurs is a two-player abstract strategy board game
from France. It was invented sometime in the 18th century. The game resembles Halma
, Chinese Checkers
, and Salta
as players hop over friendly or enemy pieces to get to their destination.
There are two phases to the game: a drop phase where players place their men onto the board, and a move phase where players race their men to the perimeter destinations (shelters).
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
from France. It was invented sometime in the 18th century. The game resembles Halma
Halma
Halma is a board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School, George Howard Monks. The inspiration was an English game called Hoppity, which was devised in 1854....
, Chinese Checkers
Chinese checkers
Chinese checkers is a board game that can be played by two, three, four, or six people, playing individually or with partners...
, and Salta
Salta
Salta is a city in northwestern Argentina and the capital city of the Salta Province. Along with its metropolitan area, it has a population of 464,678 inhabitants as of the , making it Argentina's eighth largest city.-Overview:...
as players hop over friendly or enemy pieces to get to their destination.
There are two phases to the game: a drop phase where players place their men onto the board, and a move phase where players race their men to the perimeter destinations (shelters).
Equipment
- The game board consists of 17×17 gridded lines. At the center of the board is a specially marked or colored area consisting of 9×5 intersection points (representing a "secret meeting place"). On the perimeter of the board, 39 of the intersection points are specially colored or marked for identification as shelters.
- Play pieces (men) are always placed on the intersection points, using either marbles (in holes), pegs (in holes), or flat-bottom pieces. Each player has 20 men; one side plays White, the other plays Black.
Rules
The board begins empty. Players choose color, and which player has the first turn. Play alternates after each turn.- The drop phase: Players first place one man per turn on any vacant intersection point on the special 9×5 center area of the board. Players cannot move a man until all of their 20 men have been placed.
- The move phase: Players may move one of their men to a vacant point one step in any direction (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally). Or players may jump over an adjacent man (friend or foe) and land onto a vacant point immediately beyond.
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- A jumped man is not captured (there are no captures in Conspirateurs). Multiple jumps are allowed: A man can continue to jump as long as there are jumps to be made, and can stop jumping at any point (jumps are never compulsory).
Goal
Players attempt to race their 20 men from the "secret meeting place" into the 39 shelters on the edge of the board (a shelter may hold at most one man). The first to accomplish that feat wins the game. (A drawn result is not possible in Conspirateurs, since a total of 40 men and 39 shelters will always leave one unfortunate man without a shelter.)External links
- http://homepages.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/conspirators.htm
- http://jeuxstrategieter.free.fr/Conspirateurs_complet.php