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Game Entry

Light Speed

(2003)
User Rating: 6.7 / 10 (604 Ratings)
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GameID: 5534
Rank: 591
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Information

Designed By: James Ernest
Tom Jolly
Published By: Cheapass
Mfg suggested # of Players: 2 - 4 players
User suggested # of Players:
(Not best with any number of players)
Recommended with 2, 3, 4 players
(8 voters) [poll]
Playing Time: 10 Minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages: 10 and up
User Suggested Ages: 8 and up
(3 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence: No necessary in-game text
(3 voters) [poll]
Category: Science Fiction
Action/Dexterity
Fighting
Real-time
Mechanics: Tile Placement
Simultaneous Action Selection
Other Names: N/A

Description

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From the Publisher:

Light Speed is a lightning-fast card game of space combat about identical teams of spaceships dropping out of hyperspace to do battle over an extremely important asteroid. Each spaceship is equipped with 1 to 4 lasers, and the lasers have 3 different "strengths"

The game is played in two stages. In the "fast round" players play their cards onto a table, trying to position them so that their laser beams will hit either the asteroid (and thereby "mining" it) or other players (causing them damage). Once one player has gotten rid of all of their cards, the "scoring round" begins.

In the Scoring round, all ships of the same rank will fire at the same time. (All "1" ships will fire, then all "2" ships, etc.) If, after all the ships of the same rank have fired, a ship has more damage than it does Health, the ship is destroyed. Play continues through the ranks 1-10. Once all ships have fired, players receive 1 point for each point of health they took from their opponent, plus one point for each successful "mining" of the asteroid.

Light Speed is part of the Hip Pocket Games series.

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Statistics

User Rank: 591
Num Ratings: 604
Average Rating: 6.67
Standard Deviation: 1.30
Num Views: 21817
GeekBuddy Analysis: Analyze
Similarly Rated: View
Avg. Game Weight: 1.19 moreinfo
Personal Comments: 305
Users Owning: 865
Users Wanting: 57
Users Trading: 18
Has Parts For Trade: 0
Want Parts In Trade: 0
Price History: View
Total Plays: 1171
Plays This Month: 6
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0 An unofficial timer variant for Light Speed
Light Speed Timer Variant.pdf
This eliminates the 15 second problem.
0 Cover if you want to put Light Speed in a box
Light Speed Cover.pdf
I like to put zip lock games into boxes. I think the games feel neglected if you don't do that. Here is a cover that I made for our Light Speed Box.
0 Pink and Red ships with extra asteroids to play 6 player
Light Speed Ships.pdf
This has a set of pink and a set of red ships for those families with more than 2 kids. :-)
0 Light_Speed_Spanish_Rules_Version_1.1.pdf
Light_Speed_Spanish_Rules_Version_1.1.pdf
Rules in Spanish - Version 1.1
0 Light Speed ITA rules (by Kaitarn).doc
Light Speed ITA rules (by Kaitarn).doc
Translation of the game rules in ITALIAN
2 Light Speed 20 minutes strategy variant.txt
Light Speed 20 minutes strategy variant.txt
An 20 minute strategy variant to Lightspeed
0 Light Speed - Cheapass Games - French Rules Translation.doc
Light Speed - Cheapass Games - French Ru...
Traduction française - french translation

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