BESTAGON - 100% 3D Printable Board Game

BESTAGON - 100% 3D Printable Board Game No parts to buy!

This board game re-creation and adaptation has been a labor of love, and brought back many fond memories of my sister and I and friends playing the board game ‘INNER CIRCLE’ at sleepovers where we rented scary movies at Blockbuster. It's a great game for us oldies and our kids!

• Ages 8-Adult
• For 2, 3, or 4 Players
• 2 Game Base designs available:
  • Deluxe - holds all pieces

  • Basic - takes up less filament and time to print, great if you're re-purposing pawns from another game 

PRINT DETAILS:

• Includes everything to play the game 100% 3D printed
• No supports required for print at all
• Recommended to print on Textured build plates for the easiest print
• Prints great in PLA 
• Designed for multicolor printing with just 1 AMS.
• Game boards print face-down, use a build-plate with your prefered texture, I used Textured PEI. Be sure to completely clean your build plate before printing. 
• Pick and choose any colors you like for the gameboards and pawns, they are not rules-dependent, so change up the colors for whatever you have on hand, or your favorites! 

CONTENTS:

• 1 Printed game base unit 
  (either the Basic or Deluxe that holds the pawns)
• 4 colorful cardboard gameboards
• 36 pawns

GAME SUMMARY:

BESTAGON is a strategy game played on a multilevel gameboard. To win you must outmaneuver, outwit, and outlast your opponents on 4 different gameboards to get one of your pawns into the innermost circle. Here's how it's played: Every player positions their pawns on the outer edge of the 1st Level Gameboard. Notice all the spaces on the gameboard are filled with dots, from 1 to 4 in number. These dots determine how many spaces you may move... either 1, 2, 3, or 4. On your turn, move one of your pawns the number of dots on its space towards one of the holes or "Survival Spots" on the gameboard. When all the Survival Spots are filled with players' pawns, carefully pull-up the 1st Level Gameboard from the plastic unit and set It aside. Any pawns in the Survival Spots will drop-through to the next gameboard level; any pawns not In the Survival Spots will be lifted off with the 1st Level Gameboard and considered to be out of play. Continue to play as above on the 3 remaining gameboards. Only ONE PAWN will survive play to land in the innermost circle. Will it be yours?

How-To-Play the original ‘INNER CIRCLE’ video for those that prefer to watch: 

OBJECT OF THE GAME:

Get your pawn Into the Innermost circle.

HOW TO SET UP THE GAME:

1. Place the gameboard levels in the game base face-up from smallest on the bottom to largest on top. When setting up the gameboard, the boards may be turned In any direction as long as they are face-up. This feature changes the number of dots in the Survival Spots to provide Interesting play variations for future games.

2. Each player gets the following quantity of pawns depending on how many people are playing:

   • 4 Players = 4 Pawns each

   • 3 Players = 6 Pawns each

   • 2 Players = 9 Pawns each

HOW TO PLAY THE GAME:

1. TO POSITION YOUR PAWNS: a player is chosen to go first. The play continues clockwise. 
   The first player places one of his or her pawns on any one of the outer edge spaces on the yellow/blue 1st Level Gameboard. The following players do the same on their turns. Players continue to position their pawns in the above manner along the outer edge... one pawn per turn, always alternating turns. IMPORTANT: All pawns must be placed along the outer edge before the first move is made.

2. WHAT THE DOTS MEAN: as you place your pawns on the outer edge of the gameboard, notice the number of dots on the spaces where each one of your pawns rests. These dots, from 1 to 4 In number, determine the number of spaces that a particular pawn may move. For example, if one of your pawns Is resting on a 4 dot space, you may move that pawn 4 spaces on your turn. IMPORTANT, remember how many spaces each one of your pawns may move... to do this, you must know the number of dots under each one of your pawns.

3. No peeking! You may not lift up one of your pawns during the game just to check the number of dots underneath It. Once you lift up a pawn, you must move it if you can or lose your turn!

4. HOW AND WHERE TO MOVE: each player is trying to get his or her pawns into the holes or "Survival Spots" on the gameboard. On your turn, pick up one of your pawns and move It IN A STRAIGHT LINE the number of spaces indicated by the number of dots on the space it was resting on (move It 1, 2, 3, or 4 spaces). You may move in any direction as long as you move in a straight line. Always move the full amount indicated. You must land in a Survival Spot by exact count. Once you move one pawn, your turn is over. The player who moves first should be the same player who was chosen first to position a pawn (back in Rule 1). Play then continues to the left. PLEASE NOTE: it might take you several moves to maneuver one of your pawns into a Survival Spot. But remember, your opponents are trying to land in the same spots, so plan ahead before moving... to do this, you must remember the number of dots under each one of your pawns. Once a pawn is in a Survival Spot it cannot be moved from it until play begins on the next gameboard level.

5. THE INNER CIRCLES: The center spot on the first 3 boards is BLANK and is a wild-card space, IF you move one of your pawns BY EXACT COUNT into such a space, you MUST immediately move that same pawn again either 1, 2, 3 or 4 spaces (whichever move is best for you) In a straight line in any direction. If this play does not land you in a Survival Spot, it surely can set you up to land in one on your next turn!

6. A Survival Spot will accommodate only one pawn. Each gameboard space (including the Inner Circles) will accommodate only one pawn.

7. Players may never move another player's pawn or land on another pawn. However, you may pass over any number of pawns while moving.

8. BEING BLOCKED: it is possible during the course of play that if any one of your pawns is moved, it will land on another pawn. If this situation arises, then you are considered "Blocked". You cannot move any of your pawns and you lose your turn.

9. When all the Survival Spots are filled on the 1st Gameboard Level, pick up this board, pull it up and out of the plastic gameboard unit. Any pawns not in the Survival Spots will be lifted off the gameboard and will be considered unplayable. The pawns in Survival Spots will drop-through to survive play on the next gameboard level.

10. Play as outlined above on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Level Gameboards. Notice, however, that on each level the Survival Spots get fewer and fewer in number... so on each level of play, it gets harder and harder to survive.

11. During the course of play, it is possible that none of a player's pawns will survive play before the 4th Level Gameboard i's reached. If this happens, the player with no playable pawns is immediately eliminated from the game. Of course, in a 2-player game, if this situation arises, the game is immediately over and the player with any playable pawns is declared the winner!

12. The 4th Level Gameboard is the final level of play. When a player moves one of his or her pawns into the Inner Circle Survival Spot on this board, the game is over.

HOW TO WIN THE GAME:

Whoever gets their pawn into the only Survival Spot in the Inner Circle on the 4th Level Gameboard wins the game. Be sure to lift up the final gameboard when this happens and you will see that the winning pawn is the sole survivor and has reached the innermost circle.

Enjoy BESTAGON, and please leave any feedback on how you would improve on this design!