{"id":1264,"date":"2013-02-28T17:46:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=1264"},"modified":"2013-02-28T17:46:28","modified_gmt":"2013-02-28T23:46:28","slug":"the-galcon-marble-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/28\/the-galcon-marble-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galcon Marble Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the near future, about 60 or so people are going to be getting the Galcon 2 box set.  One of the goodies is a set of marbles to play the Galcon Marble Game!  I designed this game this month and I&#8217;m posting the rules here as part of the #1GAM for February.<\/p>\n<p><i>About<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; Dominate the Galaxy with your Marble Shooting Skills!<br \/>\n&#8211; Players: 2 &#8211; 4<br \/>\n&#8211; Ages: 5 and up<\/p>\n<p><i>Supplies<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; 4 sets of 7 planets (small marbles).<br \/>\n&#8211; 1 shooter (large marble).<\/p>\n<p><i>Setup<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; Draw a circle (or any reasonable playing area) enclosing the Galaxy<br \/>\n&#8211; In order from highest online rank to lowest, each put down a single planet from your set until all planets are placed.<br \/>\n&#8211; Lowest rank plays first<\/p>\n<p><i>Playing<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; Pick one of your planets as your starting point.<br \/>\n&#8211; From there, shoot the shooter.<br \/>\n&#8211; If you get an enemy planet out of the Galaxy, you get a bonus turn.<br \/>\n&#8211; If you got one of your planets out of the Galaxy, your turn ends.<br \/>\n&#8211; If you get no planets out, your turn ends.<\/p>\n<p><i>Winning<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; The winner is the last person with planets in the Galaxy<\/p>\n<p><i>Rules<\/i><br \/>\n&#8211; You are allowed to knock your own planets around if you want to, but you may not shoot at the planet you are starting from.<br \/>\n&#8211; Knocking out multiple enemy planets in a single shot only gets you one bonus turn.<br \/>\n&#8211; No matter what, if you knock one of your planets out, you don&#8217;t get a bonus turn.<\/p>\n<p>Have fun!<br \/>\n-Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the near future, about 60 or so people are going to be getting the Galcon 2 box set. One of the goodies is a set of marbles to play the Galcon Marble Game! I designed this game this month and I&#8217;m posting the rules here as part of the #1GAM for February. About &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[121],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-galcon2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}