MAX 

Board Game and Puzzles
© Copyright Karl Scherer 1999

The Max Game:
(Abbreviated) Game Rules:
Number of Players: 2 - 3.
Board: The playing area for the MAX Game is the star shaped area.
         The tiles can be placed anywhere on the board.
Goal: The goal is to connect a tip of the six-pointed star with another tip by building a fence
         consisting of your tiles (i.e. of   your colour). In a fence, the tiles have (at least) to touch at a vertex.
         For each connected tip the player gets one point. So for a connecting fence you get two,
         three, four, five or six points, depending on how many tips of the start you have
         connected.
         If there is a draw (i.e. the two top scoring players in this round have the same number of tips connected),
         then the one with the longer fence (chain of connected tiles) earns one additional point.
         The length of a fence is determined by the number of tiles in it.
         The round is finished if no more tiles can be laid onto the board or if the players run out of tiles.
         After the predetermined number of rounds the points are added.
         The player with the most points wins.

The Max Puzzle:

One tile, one thousand challenges!
               It is harder than it looks!

All 44 shapes given in the accompanying leaflet can be filled with the 60 tiles included in this package.
These 44 tasks are just a selection of the puzzle you can do wiith  the MAX tiles, and each has two levels of
difficulty (see below).
If you have more than one MAX set, there are hundreds more puzzles to solve!

Beginner's Level:
Try to join the  MAX   tiles onthe table so that they form one of the
shapes given on the following pages, without any gaps or overlaps.
For some of the tsaks you need less than the sizty tiles included in
this package.

Expert Level:
MAX  tiles come in three colours, e.g. yellow, red and blue.
Select any of the shapes in this leaflet.
Try to create this shape with MAX tiles in such a way that
NO TWO ADJACENT TILES CARRY THE SAME COLOUR.
Can you do this for each shape?

MAX Boardgame and Puzzles - cardboard version
          Sixty quality cardboard tiles in three colours,
          plus paper playing board showing star shaped playing board with triangular grid....................(NZ$20) US$15

MAX Boardgame and Puzzles - acrylic version
          Board and tiles acrylic, hand made, beautiful luxury version (see image above)
          The board also contains a detachable foil with a triangular grid for improved play..................(NZ$40) US$30
          Several colour combinations available:
            a) black board with red, blue and white tiles
            b) black board with red, yellow and white tiles
            c) yellow board with red, blue and white tiles
            d) blue board with red, yellow and black tiles

MAX  Boardgame and Puzzles - acrylic tiles with paper board
           Please specify colours of tiles .............................................................................................(NZ$ 25) US$20

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