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A brand-new version of one of the most iconic board games, specifically developed for physicists and physics enthusiasts, will be soon available!
In this version of the game:
- Your ultimate goal is to produce a super-massive Magnetic Monopole particle.
- You deal all the time with energy. You earn, trade and spend energy to achieve your objectives.
- The path on the board represents a circular particle accelerator, and it is divided into a number of sectors, or “spaces”. Many of them represent coloured targets.
- The initial amount of energy you own is very little. You can increase it by rolling dices, moving your token on the board accordingly (starting from the “GO” space) and acting based on the space you reached.
- Every time you complete a full circle and pass again through the “GO” space you gain a fixed amount of fresh energy.
- Whenever your token lands on an unoccupied target, you can spend some of your energy to buy it.
- If you own all the targets of the same colour you can use your energy to build particles of equivalent mass, which are represented by special tokens that you place on your target spaces. The bigger the masses of your particles, the better for you, and the worse for other players.
- When you stop on a target owned by another player, you can take the opportunity to study his/her experimental results, but you must pay him/her a specific amount of energy. This amount is proportional to the particle masses that were built on that space, and in the worst case you may completely run out of energy. In this case you will be declared bankrupt and will have to withdraw from the game.
- You may be trapped in a potential well. To escape it you can spend a specified amount of your energy. If you don’t have enough energy, or if you don’t want to waste it, there is another way to escape — a probabilistic one. You roll two dices, and if you get a double you are free, even if your energy was not enough to overcome the well barrier.
- Along your path you will occasionally encounter chances, such as: all your particles suddenly decayed, or: you face an unexpected symmetry breaking; or: your brain was hit and fried by a high-energy beam.
- Although it was designed for physicists, Monopole can be satisfactorily played by any human with an IQ around or above average.
- This game may not be suitable for gods, since gods don’t roll dices.
To be proficient with this game, it is recommended that you read this book series.
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