Rocket Games ROC1427 Countdown The Board Game

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In SUSPICION mode, one to two guards infiltrate the prisoners, looking to prevent their escape through deception or brutality! Rounds continue with four more Letters Games followed by another Numbers Game then three more Letters Games followed by a third Numbers Game. If more than one player has the joint longest word then these players all score. These scores are written in the adjacent Round Box on these player's Score Sheet and are then added to their Total Score Box.

Each player has thirty seconds to try and reach the target number using any or all of the six numbers just once by means of any combination of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. NOTE: You are unable to put down a reminder token during the first look pre-programming action when the game starts. Each character has 4 base actions (Look, Move, Push and Control) plus a Special Talent (if enabled). Move your character to an adjacent room. If the room is still hidden, it is revealed when you reach it. The room will stay revealed for the rest of the game. A room effect applies every time a character enters it.

WINNER

Choose and observe secretly a room adjacent to your character. Once you have looked at it, replace it face down. You are allowed to give indications about the room’s danger level (the color of the room) but you CANNOT tell the other players the name of the room.

PROGRAMMING: All players program simultaneously up to 2 actions by turn and, if they want, the ADRENALINE only once in the game The Countdown game show has become somewhat of a British institution. The first programme was aired on Channel 4 in 1982 and the game show has over 5,000 episodes behind it, across no less than 65 series, making it one of the longest-running game shows in existence. After the thirty seconds is up all players compare words. The player with the longest word wins the number of points equal to the number of letters in their word. Move the line that includes your character’s room one rank in the direction you choose (vertically or horizontally). All the rooms slide one rank in the same direction, all the characters stay on the rooms they’re standing on and slide with them. The room at the end of the line exits the Complex and is replaced at the other end of the line. Afterwards, a Control token is placed next to the line you just moved with the arrow pointing in the direction of the movement.The guards win if two prisoners are killed or if the prisoners did not escape before the end of the countdown.

When all actions have been resolved, the TURN ENDS: All Control tokens are removed from the complex. The first player becomes the last player.

ROUND 15 - THE COUNTDOWN CONUNDRUM

NOTE: Adrenaline actions are not within the same turn. The turn ends and then the adrenaline actions are resolved.

After the thirty seconds has elapsed the players declare how close they got to the target score. All players who achieved this target, score ten points each, with the other players not scoring. If no player has reached the target then the player/s who are closest score seven points if that number is within five of the target or five points if it is within ten of the target. Numbers more than ten away from the target do not score. A player can also choose to program only one action. During the Action phase they will be able to choose if they play it during the first action turn or during the second one. exception: the Central room CANNOT be moved and always stays at the Complex’s center. Therefore, it is IMPOSSIBLE to use the Control action to move a central line (containing the Central Room). In SUSPICION mode, there are 10 turns for 4-6 characters, 9 turns for 7 characters and 8 for 8 characters.All the players have a starting clue. During the first Turn, before the first Programming phase, each player secretly looks at one of the four rooms adjacent to the Central room, and replaces it face-down in its initial location. Warning: Each player looks at ONE room only, even if they play more than one characters.