Board games
Spectrangle
Broadway Toys LTD, 1989
Spectrangle is a board game published by Broadway Toys LTD in 1989. It is played with 1 to 4 players, from age 8 and in about 45 minutes.
- players
- 1–4
- minutes
- 45
- years
- 8+
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The box
- Publishers
- Broadway Toys LTD, Educational Insights, Greystone, Jumbo, N.W. Damm & Søn (Damm), Publijuego
- Designers
- Alain John Fraser-Dackers, Maxwell Graham Gordon, Lester Wynne Jordan
- Artwork
- Alain John Fraser-Dackers, Maxwell Graham Gordon, Lester Wynne Jordan
- Year of release
- 1989
- Also known as
- Spectrangle 36
About the game
Spectrangle is a triangular tile-based abstract strategy game invented by Alan John Fraser-Dackers, Maxwell Graham Gordon and Lester Wynne Jordan. The principles behind the game are based on the work of British mathematician Percy Alexander MacMahon. The original game was for up to 8 players and used 60 tiles. A later more compact version for up to four players uses 36 tiles. It is this version that is described here.
The game uses colourful double-sided triangular playing tiles called trangs. The trangs use all the permutations of red, yellow, green, cyan and magenta to give 35 unique trangs, plus one all-white 'joker'. Each trang is marked with a number that is the basic scoring value of that tile. The trangs are played onto a triangular game board; some of the spaces are marked with a number that is the bonus value of the space (unmarked spaces having a bonus value of 1).More from Broadway Toys LTD
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