Pyramid Review
Easter Island
Published by Twilight Creations, Inc.
Designed by Odet L'Homer & Roberto Fraga
Art by Kurt Miller
Layout & design by Kerry & Todd A. Breitenstein
16 plastic Moai pawns, mounted game board, Sun tokens, rulebook; full color, boxed, two players; $24.99
Easter Island. Strange. Alien. Imposing. Full of these big stone head thingies.
If you've not visited Wikipedia, this small island in the South Pacific is dotted with gi-normous stone heads called Moai, silent sentinels that stare out to sea. If you think that's the only attraction for tourists, though, think again. Twilight Creations, Inc. wants you to believe that these massive idols (?) are actually part of a great and magical contest played out between powerful but unsung mages from the history pages of Easter Island.
The object of the game is to eliminate most of your opponent's pieces before he takes out yours.
The game plays out on a map of the island, or more accurately a grid superimposed over it. In the center of the land, 25 points in a five-by-five square, connected by lines. Around the landmass, a circle with 20 points, five on all four sides, pointing inward toward the grid. The players start by placing four of their pieces each onto the grid; the pawns are in the shape of the great Moai heads (with a little bit of their body thrown in). Players then harness the rays of the sun to blast each other's heads into pieces.
Each turn, a player gets two actions: place . . .
This article originally appeared in the second volume of Pyramid. See the current Pyramid website for more information.
Article publication date: September 29, 2006
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