Deduction, elastic waves and tangrams hidden underground.
1) One player becomes the Mine Manager, the others are Explorers.
Before you start, you chooseonly one player as Director:
he knows the secret map of the mine andplace the minerals (tangram-like pieces)hidden on the grill10×8.
The other players areExplorers: they see nothing and have tomentally reconstruct the arrangement.
2) The mine is a mysterious grid: the minerals deflect the waves like mirrors.
Minerals are colored tangram shapes that occupy various squares of the grid.
There is no movement on the board:we reason.
Each piece works asa reflective obstacle: the elastic wave hits it and changes directionat 90°,
creating unpredictable paths until they exit the mine.
3) Take turns “shooting a wave” by choosing an entrance along the edges of the grid.
On the edge of the map there are coordinatesnumeric (1–18)on two sides andalphabetical (A–R)on others.
On his turn an Explorer chooses one of these coordinates andlaunches an elastic wavein a straight line:
horizontal or vertical,never diagonal.
When the wave meets a mineral,bouncesand keep traveling untilhe goes outfrom the grill.
4) The Director reveals only two pieces of information: the exit point and the color of the wave.
When the wave comes out, the Director communicates to the Explorers:
1️⃣which side does it come out from?,
2️⃣what color is the exit(related to diverted mineral).
The Explorersthey write everything down on their sheets of paper, trying to trace reflections, possible shapes, connections and logical deviations.
5) The winner is the first player to deduce the exact position + color of all the minerals.
After collecting enough clues, a player canattempt the solution even outside of his turn.
Ifall minerals are correctly indicated, that player wins immediately.
If he makes a mistake… the game continues and the others gain a logical advantage over his mistake.
