Spire (2011)

Rules

The board starts empty. Two players, White and Black, take turns placing a ball of their colour or a red ball either on an empty board hole or stacking on a 2×2 platform.

If a red ball is placed then the player must play another ball of their own colour in the same turn.

No single 2×2 platform may include more than 2 like-coloured balls:

Playing on a platform is only possible if the colour to be played is not used twice in the base:

Players must place a ball if possible. Only if there is no placement available (in the beginning of their turn or after a red ball was played) players must pass their turn.

The player who played the last ball wins the game. This can be a red ball and it need not be the spire ball on top.

Included in the Shibumi Rule Book

Soft cover:

http://www.lulu.com/shop/cameron-browne-and-nestor-romeral-andres/shibumi-rule-book/paperback/product-18940123.html

Downloadable PDF:

http://www.nestorgames.com/rulebooks/SHIBUMI_EN.pdf

A Haiku for Spire

With friend and foe you rise,
you cannot go yourself
where enlightenment is.

Spire was designed in November 2011 as an entry for the Shibumi Challenge.
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgamefamily/13434/shibumi