PYRAMID

2 Players I 8+

A game 5.000 years in the making.

PYRAMID RULES

GOAL

The goal of the game is to climb up the Pyramid and bring 4 of your game stones to the positions on the upper level. Since the opponent has the same goal, conflict is inevitable.

PREPERATION

Place 7 stones of each color in one line at the lowest level, across from each other.

GAMEPLAY

The white player begins and has to move one of his stones. Afterwards the black player continues.

A stone has 3 options to move.

1. RUN Move the stone forward as many fields as you want as long as his route does not go to a higher level. The stone cannot jump over other stones or share their field. If your stone moves to a lower level which is occupied by another stone, the attacked stone is SMASHED and gets removed from the game.

2. JUMP Move the stone up to the unoccupied adjacent field one level above.

3. PUSH Take the place of an adjacent stone by pushing it one field further. A pushed stone can also SMASH another stone. If the pushed stone was on a corner field at the lowest level, he FALLS and gets removed from the game. It is not possible to PUSH two stones at once.

OSIRIS Apart from SMASHING and FALLING, stones can also be removed by forming an OSIRIS. If one or more stones of the same color get surrounded by the opposing color on the same level and in one line, they get removed.

END

PYRAMID can be won in two ways:

1. The first player who positions 4 of his stones at the marked victory fields wins the game and the glory of the Egyptian gods.

2. When a player has only 3 stones left he automatically loses and the opposing player wins.

If a threefold repetition occurs, the game ends in a draw.

Meet Professor Graham

This Archeologist has made unbelievable discoveries about the ancient world. He was the first to excavate the Pyramid game before it would have been lost to the sands of time.