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Games Magazine
Robin H. King
April 2003
USA
Simple to learn, quick to play,
and always concluding decisively, FIRE
AND ICE is a beguiling game that will appeal to your
sense of geometric harmony.
The board consist of seven triangular islands marking the
corners, edges, and center of a larger triangle. In this same
symmetrical form, each island contains seven holes.
The game begins with a fire peg placed in the center hole
of he center island. The Fire player: (a) moves this peg to
either any other hole in the central triangle, or to a corresponding
hole (in this case, the central one) in another triangular
island; and (b) places an Ice peg in the vacated hole. Subsequent
turns consist of similarly moving a peg in your color, followed
by placing an enemy peg in the hole just vacated.
In order for a player to gain control of an island, pegs
in his color either must be arranged on the island in any
line of three or must occupy the middle holes of all three
edges. Likewise, a player wins by controlling either three
islands in a row, or the three islands in the middle of each
edge of the large triangle.
This is a fascinatingly novel and seminal game for the intrepid
(not tepid!) abstract strategist.
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