Lotus is a board game for two to four players developed by Dominique Teller and published by Ravensburger Spieleverlag. The object of the game is to move your pieces off the board before the other players. The game board is hexagonal in its shape; it has a large image of a Chinese dragon in the middle, and a Chinese character in each board position. If you have two players, one player is given ten white game pieces while the other player gets ten black game pieces. The pieces are stacked in the middle of the board as one stack of 4 pieces, one stack of 3 pieces, one stack of 2 pieces and one stack of 1 piece. If you have 3 or 4 players then each player gets 6 pieces, stacked in the middle in stacks of 3, 2 and 1. Each player takes turns moving their pieces in an attempt to get to the exit space on the game board. The finish position is after the last square on the board. You do not have to land exactly on it. If you have moved a piece to the finish take it off the board out of play. The game is over when a player has moved all their pieces off the board.Additionally in professional 2 player games, the person to start the game can use their initial turn to move two pieces at once. Then the next player moves one piece, according to the main rules.
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“Lotus.” BoardGameGeek, boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/198525/lotus.
“Lotus.” Renegade Game Studios, http://www.renegadegamestudios.com/lotus/.
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