Ant Trails

Ant Trails: A Two-Player Abstract Strategy Game

Objective: Create the longest unbroken trail of your colored ants and collect the most valuable bonus tiles.

Setup: -Hexagonal game board.

• Shuffle the 12 bonus tiles (4 x 3 points, 4 x 2 points, 4 x 1 point) and place them face-up randomly on the board (avoiding border cells).
• Each player takes the ant tiles of one color (red or black).

Gameplay: On your turn:

1. Place 2 of your colored ants on the board, following these placement rules:
   • Place an ant on an empty border cell.
   • Place an ant adjacent to exactly one of your existing ants.
   • Join the ends of two of your ant trails by placing an ant between them.
   • Place an ant to form a loop with one of your existing ant trails.
2. Optionally, move any number of your bonus tiles one step along your ant trails toward the border.
   • Bonus tiles must be moved from one of your ants to the next in the trail.
   • Collected bonus tiles are scored at the end of the game.

Passing: If you cannot make any legal ant placements, you must pass your turn.

End of Game: The game ends when both players pass consecutively.

Scoring:

• Count the length of each player's longest continuous ant trail.
• Add the point values of all bonus tiles collected by each player.
• The player with the highest total score wins.