Pyramid Review
Infinifield
Published by Infinifield, Inc.
24 plastic blocks in various colors, five pawns, & rules (in Spanish, English, and Russian), boxed; $19.99
Making your own playing surface is no new idea for gaming. There are plenty of "build your own board" games, and several where the construction changes things from one iteration to the next. Infinifield takes its name from the fact that it has a nearly endless arrangement of pieces.
The object of the game is to score the most points by being the last pawn standing.
Your battlefield is a series of plastic boxes in various colors and sizes. Each one is about half an inch thick and an inch and a half wide. Length varies from a couple of inches to almost a foot, depending on the piece in question. Each round, someone is chosen to be the field builder; it's their job to construct the board for that round of play. There are certain rules to putting it together, but most of these are either obvious or are needed to make the game work. There must be space on each block to place a pawn, the tiles cannot be tilted, they must all be part of a single pile, etc. Beyond that, it's open season. You can stack all the pieces next to one another to create an orderly little pyramid, or stagger them and leave them all over the table like pieces of metal in a junkyard.
The white blocks are a kind of connective tissue for the game. They have to be spaced out a bit, and no single colored block may touch more than two of . . .
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Article publication date: December 16, 2005
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