Aeroplane Chess

Aeroplane Chess

飛行棋

The 1900s

Aeroplane Chess gameboard, featuring four starting hangars in each corner, a track of 52 spaces circumventing the board, four home zones each leading from the track to the end spaces at the centre of the board. The board is evenly divided between the colours red, yellow, blue and green.
Four sets of 4 coloured airplane pieces, typically red, yellow, blue and green.
A 6-sided die.

Chinese

Physical Object

5+

Two to four players each try to get all their own plane pieces from their hangars, located at the corners of the board, into the base of their own colour in the centre of the board. Each player takes a turn by rolling the die. On a turn a player may do the following:
1) Take a piece out of the hangar onto the board. This can only be done by rolling a 5 or 6.
2) Move a piece that is on the board clockwise around the track, the number of spaces indicated by the die.
A plane must fly into the centre base on an exact roll. When a plane does so, it is placed face down back in its own hangar, indicating that it is done for the game. The first player to get all four of their planes to the centre of the board wins. The rest play until there is only one loser.