Mr. Shen here.
Mr. Shen here.
Mr. Shen here.
This is the game of Transit System. The objective of the game is for each player to engineer path to arrive at the central green goal before everybody else. Four players. For every game the green goal tile is always placed in the middle and the blue points tiles are always placed at the middle of the sides. However, every other piece is shuffled and placed randomly so that the board is different every game. Each player starts off at the edge of the board at the blue point tiles. During each player's turn the player automatically accumulates one point, moves their piece across one tile to the edge of the following tile, then may play their point to rotate their following adjacent tile by 90 degrees in either direction. They may also choose to save their point and not rotate the tile. If players have saved up three points, they may play them to rotate any tile on the board (other than the goal) by 90 degrees. The goal tile may be rotated with the use of four points. Every time a player moves across a blue point tile, an additional point is accumulated. Players may not reverse and move their piece back the way they came except when their are about to collide with another player or their path has led them to a dead end. Players may never immediately reverse back across a blue point tile.
Mr. Shen here.
In the future, artificially intelligent pda cell phones are more like pets. Their delicate arthropod mobility allows them to run to us and jump into our hand when we have a call. Or perch on our shoulder, holding themselves up to our ear. They even lead us around when we ask it for directions. Sadly, they are inevitably dumped by their owners for newer models, and left to fend for themselves in the world. Ownerless swarms of cell phones now present a huge vermin problem in major cities. Computer viruses carried in their population eventually lead to the first great digital plague.
Mr. Shen here.
