Trimate (print-n-play)

A simple game about societies and the environment.

Be the first to have settlements on the required number of resources.

For 2 or 3 players. PDF file. Players need to provide additional game tokens to play.

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Players compete for spaces on the board. The board is a grid of many triangular spaces consisting of land, water, and mountain.

Each turn, a player may either place a new settlement on the board, or slide one of their settlements into an adjacent triangle (potentially pushing an opposing piece). 

The twist of the game (and its inspiration) is that to reach the end quicker, players are competing to build "cities". A city is when a player places 3 settlements into a larger triangle. For doing so, the player receives one extra settlement to place, but then must also poison one of their own resources, permanently damaging that space.

However, a player only has to damage one resource per turn, so a smart player will set up a chain of potential cities, and thus be rewarded for smart placement. A player who can only build one city in a turn best not build a city at all, as it will only damage the board.

Technology is a benefit and a cost.