San Ta Si
San Ta Si Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Material
- 30 tubes (metal tube parts with 2 colours: 15 blue and 15 silvery parts)
- 1 wooden base
- 1 game rule
Game Target
Both players build together three towers and in doing so try to hide the building bricks of the opponent. The winner is who has built in the most visible parts into the towers.
Game Preparation
The triangular wooden base is placed into the middle of the table between the two players. The tubes of both colours are placed besides. Every player decides for one colour.
Game Progress
The player begins who decided for the blue tubes. Every player puts alternatingly a freely chosen (own or adverse) tube on one of the three building sites, until all parts are used. The players are in a tight spot.
Building Rules
Without condition any tube can be put onto the base.
But, if you like to build higher, the following rule is valid: every newly built-in tube has to be held by one of its neighbour tubes (inside or outside). It's not allowed to put tubes loose on another but these have to be sticked into each other.
Neighbour tubes are tubes with the next bigger or smaller diameter.
Sample (Fig. 2b): It's Helge's turn. He can only build in a tube with the size C, D or E, because there are direct neighbour tubes existing. Tubes of the size A and B are not allowed, because they cannot be held by neighbour tubes.
Game End and Winner
As soon as all tubes are used, the game ends. Who has now, looking at the towers from outside, the most visible tube parts in the towers, is the winner. With a result in which neither side is the winner, only the parts of the highest tower are counted.
Settlement sample: Helge and Rüdiger count their from outside visible tube parts at all three towers. Helge counts 9 blue tube parts. Rüdiger counts 8 silvery tube parts. Helge with it, won the competition this time.