Ghosts (game)

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Ghosts (later editions: The Good and the Bad Ghosts ) is a board game for two people, designed by Alex Randolph , and first published in the USA in 1982 by Milton Bradley .

Gameplay

A grid field of 6 × 6 segments, which are supposed to represent a haunted castle , serves as the playing field . Each player starts with eight ghosts, four of which are considered good ghosts (marked with a blue dot on the back) and four are considered evil ghosts (marked with a red dot). Before the actual course of the game, each player places his ghosts on any of the fields in his first two rows. The corner fields are considered the exits of the castle. The players don't know which opposing ghosts are good or bad. Each player then takes turns moving a ghost one space further. Opposing ghosts can be captured by moving to an occupied field, only at this point does the player find out whether he has caught a good or bad ghost.

A player wins if he succeeds in capturing all of the opposing good spirits - but he loses if he has captured the four evil opposing spirits. The game can also be won if a player manages to use one of his four good spirits to go through one of the two exits on the opposing side of the castle.

This game owes its attractiveness to both strategy, bluffing and the acumen to guess what the opponent is doing.

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