Ghosts- The Board Game
Players can arrange their good and evil ghosts in any manner they want to, at the beginning of the game. They can choose a strategic formation, where they place their evil ghosts in between good ones, to confuse the opponent. The players take turns to move one ghost through one square, either vertically or horizontally. An opponents ghost is captured if you move your ghost to the other ghosts square. In the event of capturing the opponents ghost, the identity of that ghost is revealed, that is whether it is good or evil.
If a player captures all the evil ghosts of the other player, then s/he loses the game, and if all the four good ghosts are captured, the game is won. A player also wins the game if s/he manages to move a good ghost through one of the exits from the opponents side of the board. This game involves a considerable amount of guesswork, and strategy in concealing the identity of the ghosts through mixed movement patterns. The hidden information about the ghosts identities makes the game exciting, and new each time the game is played. This game was intended for children above the age of 10, as the game requires strategic skill. Usually the game takes about 20 minutes to play, but it can take more time as well.
The chess like similarities do not only end in killing the opponents ghosts through orthogonal movements of a players own ghosts, but also in planning out a pathway for the good ghosts to reach the far end exits on the opposite side of the board (similar to a pawns movement). The secret unit deployment aspect of the game comes from the fact that the players resources are in a sense hidden from the other player, which can be used strategically to ones advantage. This game is quite popular in many European countries such as Germany (Geister), Sweden (Spökspelet), Finland (Kummituspeli), etc. The popular online version of this game, called BrettspielWelt, can be played in real time with another online player. The game of Ghosts comes in other names s well, including Jekyll and Hyde, Fantasmi, etc.
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