Pylon Rulebook

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

• Rules
• Play
  • Placement phase
  • Stacking phase
• Scoring

Rules

You'll need two stashes and a 5x6 rectangular board.

Place the board between the players. Each player takes one stash.

Play

The game is played in two phases: a placement phase, in which all the pyramids are placed onto the board, followed by a stacking phase, in which pyramids are collected into stacks.

Placement phase

Players alternate turns. On your turn, place a pyramid from your stash onto any empty square. Continue until the board is full.

Stacking phase

Players alternate turns, starting with the player who placed the last pyramid. On your turn, choose any pyramid or stack of pyramids, regardless of color, and place it on top of a pyramid or stack of pyramids in an orthogonally adjacent square.

• A pyramid or stack may never be moved to an empty square; once a square is vacated, it will never be occupied again.
• A pyramid may never be stacked on top of a smaller pyramid, i.e., the bottom pyramid of the top stack must be no larger than the top pyramid of the bottom stack.

Continue until no legal moves remain. (The players can agree to end the game earlier if it's clear that no moves will change the final score.)

Scoring

Your score is the total number of pyramids in stacks whose top pyramid belongs to you. The player with the higher score at the end of the game wins.