Martian Chess
It’s kind of like chess, but your pieces change ownership as soon as you attack with them.
Downloadable Rules:
Designer:
Andrew Looney
Year Created:
1995
Available In:
Stuff You Need To Play:
3 Trios of an assortment of colors for each player
Martian Chessboard (or regular Chessboard for 4 players)
Videos
Publication History
Martian Chess was first published in 1996, in a booklet of 5 new pyramid games called More Icehouse Games.- Martian Chess is one of the 4 games featured in 1999's Icehouse: The Martian Chess Set.
- Martian Chess is one of 12 games featured in Playing with Pyramids, published in 2002.
- Martian Chess was one of the 3 games in the small booklet, 3HOUSE, published in 2007.
- Martian Chess was included in Pyramid Primer #1. The rules from that version are still availble in this PDF.
- Martian Chess is one of the 22 games featured in Pyramid Arcade.
- Martian Chess will be published in a standalone edition in Fall 2020, as part of Pyramid Quartet. It will feature a new color, opaque Martian Red. (Kickstarter backers had the option to receive an exclusive, limited run of silver pieces instead.)
Other Notes
- The Looney Labs FAQ page has a section for Questions about this game.
- Martian Chess was the second game invented for the pyramids, and was based on Monochrome Chess.
- Andy wrote a short story about the fictional origins of this game as well, which was included as an afterward in the print edition of The Empty City. It's called The Martian Archeological Society.
- This game is listed on Wikipedia.
- Eeyore' page about 3 player Martian Chess
