Betelgeuse: The Celestial Strategy Game Board Game | BoardGames.com | Your source for everything to do with Board Games

Description

Betelgeuse is an abstract game with a space theme; the 397-space hexagonal board depicts Betelgeuse in the center and six other stars near the corners. Players have a supply of stars in their colors.

On a turn a player rolls two dice and places one star with each them; the number rolled determines how many spaces away the new star must be from a printed star (at the start of the game) or a player's own star (later on).

Getting three of own's own stars adjacent in a triangle destroys opposing stars in a certain radius and prevents further play there.

Each player also has a single black hole which can be placed to cause additional destruction, and there is a neutral comet piece which also destroys things; the comet is moved when a player rolls doubles.

There is an advanced game in which players form "solar systems" by encircling empty spaces or the printed stars.