Wipe out your enemies - and your friends — in ROBIN NIXON's novel strategy game MELTDOWN is a game for two players. It is played on a 10x10 board with each player taking it in turn to place a counter on either an empty square or one he has already occupied. The object is to wipe all your opponent's counters from the board. You can put up to three counters on a square. If you place a fourth, the square becomes overloaded and explodes. When this happens the counters are blown on to the four adjacent squares. If the opponent occupies any of these, the counters in those squares are removed leaving them empty. After an explosion, an extra counter of the player's colour is left in the exploded square. If, in the process of a square exploding, a fourth counter is added to an adjacent square, that explodes too. In this way chain reactions can occur which will increase the player's number of counters, and often leave the opponent rather worse off. However, if more than four counters end up on a square, it becomes too heavy and implodes, leaving nothing. CWTA
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