Quantum Stratego

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Quantum Stratego is an adaption of the classic board game Stratego. The twist is that it uses a quantum wave function as the start position of the board rather than placing all game pieces at start.

Play Requirements

In addition to the basic game of Stratego It requires 40 pennies and 40 nickels or equivalent double-sided counters. Red player gets the pennies, blue player uses the nickels.

Rules

Place coins tails up in the 40 starting locations for playing pieces. Then each player puts the regular playing pieces in a "po Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborumny piece if it is tails up or any piece except the bomb or flag if it is heads up. Both players replace their coins with their chosen piece and combat is resolved normally. Destroyed pieces are moved to the graveyard.

If a piece is on the board, it remains as that piece and acts as if it were playing the normal game of Stratego. Players have six bombs and a flag and must reserve enough unmoved tails up coins to place all remaining bombs and the flag or forfeit the game.

Winning the Game

The game is won by capturing an opponents flag. Under normal play this occurs when the last tails-up coin is challenged.

The Quantum Part Explained

Quantum superposition in way too many words means that the state of something is unknown until you observe it. When you start the game each coin will eventually be replaced with a playing piece, but at the beginning each coin is potentially every playing piece. Every time a coin is replaced with a playing piece the quantum state collapses. A physicist might say that observing the coin as a certain piece collapses the quantum state of the system, but I'm not a physicist.

Its a game, enjoy it. Heck, it might even be educational.