Set Up

· Gravity Trap is played on a field with 22 bases connected by curved tracks.
· The players each choose a ship (Red or Blue) and place it on any base.
· Twenty black pods are placed on the remaining bases.
· Players decide who moves first or alternate the start.

Rules of Play

· Players take turns moving their ship along a track to any occupied base. (Fig A)
· Ships must take off and land on the same track; no change of direction is allowed.
· Ships may jump over pods, empty bases and the other ship. (Fig B)
· Players decide who moves first or alternate the start.
· Every time a ship lands, it displaces the pod from its base, knocking it into the hole.

Winning

· As soon as one player makes their final move the other player wins! (Fig C)
· This means that when a ship lands on its final base (has no further legal moves) the game ends.
· The winning player counts how many occupied bases their ship can still reach. (Fig D)

Notes

· The second player may not exactly mimic all the first player's moves, by starting their ship in an opposite position and copying each move.

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Last update: May, 2009.