Gravity Trap Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Set Up
• Rules of Play
• Winning
• Notes
• Figures

Set Up

• Gravity Trap is played on a field with 22 bases connected by curved tracks.
• The players each choose a ship (Red or Blue) and place it on any base.
• Twenty black pods are placed on the remaining bases.
• Players decide who moves first or alternate the start.

Rules of Play

• Players take turns moving their ship along a track to any occupied base. (Fig A)
• Ships must take off and land on the same track; no change of direction is allowed.
• Ships may jump over pods, empty bases and the other ship. (Fig B)
• Players decide who moves first or alternate the start.
• Every time a ship lands, it displaces the pod from its base, knocking it into the hole.

Winning

• As soon as one player makes their final move the other player wins! (Fig C)
• This means that when a ship lands on its final base (has no further legal moves) the game ends.
• The winning player counts how many occupied bases their ship can still reach. (Fig D)

Notes

• The second player may not exactly mimic all the first player's moves, by starting their ship in an opposite position and copying each move.

Figures

• A. First move by Red
• B. Second move by Blue
• C. Final move by Red
• D. Blue wins by 3 pods