DETAILED INFORMATION

• Features and Benefits
• Summary of Play
• Product Data Sheet
• Credits

Features and Benefits

• Attractive wooden game board and pieces.
• Fascinating patterns are formed with the constantly changing roadway paths. The game has a pleasing aesthetic quality.
• Original and interesting piece movement.
• Games can get quite exciting with dramatic twists. Sometimes when you’re far behind, you can quickly construct a long roadway which enables you to suddenly move a runner across the board and get right back in the game. Similarly, sometimes you can play a tile which blocks a valuable roadway of an opponent and (temporarily at least) hinders him from making substantial progress.
• High replay value as the roadway paths will be different and unpredictable from game to game.
• The alternate games, solitaires, and puzzle challenges offered in the rules further enhance the replay value.
• Suitable as a serious game for experienced gamers because foresight in roadway building usually pays off for those who can plan ahead and anticipate future moves. But the game also works well for more casual players who tend to move quickly and try only to make small gains with each move.
• The game combines skill with an element of luck (the random placing of the tiles at the beginning) so that a less-skilled player has a definite chance to beat a more skilled player.
• Not really suited for very young players as the rules take a little effort to understand and it’s easy to make mistakes in placing tiles if the players are not concentrating fully.
• Does not appear that the player moving first has a substantial advantage
• Works well for 2, 3, or 4 players though the game is substantially harder the more players you have. With more players, the roadways change more substantially between each of your turns and there are more runners in place potentially blocking the stop squares to which you might want to move.
• There is a mathematical nature to the patterns on the tiles. No two tiles have the same arrangement of path segments. In fact, the 18 tiles represent each of the different patterns that are possible when connecting 4 pairs of sides on octagonal tiles.

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Summary of Play

GOAL

Get all your pieces across the board first. (Like in Chinese Checkers).

SET UP

Fill the board with tiles starting face down, leaving one “switch” tile for exchanging. Place your runners on their starting circles.

MOVES

Replace a tile with the “switch” tile, then move one runner across it.

EXAMPLES

1. Example of a first move: It is a good strategy to leave some unfinished paths that can be extended.
2. Example of the same player’s second move: The runner follows a path that crosses the lower right corner of the tile just played –In this example the second tile on its journey.

Notice how it then crosses a path printed on the board and re-crosses the first tile before reaching the square. This shows the wide variety of possibilities in making paths.

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Product Data Sheet - 76020

Name	Octiles
Released	2002
Origin	Thailand
Item #	76020
UPC	6 59390 76020 1
ISBN	0-9716729-5-4
Ages	8+
Players	2-4
List	29.99
Unit	1 unit
Length	11.875"
Width	1.875"
Height	11.875"
Weight (lbs)	4.06 lbs
Case	4
Length	12.75"
Width	12.75"
Height	12"
Weight (lbs)	17.05 lbs
Master Pack	12
Weight (lbs)	52.8 lbs
Pallet	216
Cases	36
Length	48"
Width	40.8"
Height	53.5"
Weight (lbs)	966 lbs*

* includes pallet weight @ 45 lbs

Credits
Original Concept and Prototype:	Dale Walton

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