Crab Stack

Crab Stack

Crawl smart or get swept away. The tide is rising and the crabs are looking for safe places to land, trapping their opponents beneath them. The object of Crab Stack is to immobilize your opponents' crabs by landing on top of them while avoiding being washed away.

The six-sided board is printed with 36  . The 36 tokens come in several different heights. There are nine each of four different colors.

Game board in play

Object: 
The last person who can still move a crab wins the game.

Set up: 
Each player chooses a color. The tokens for all players are mixed and randomly placed on the board. The instruction sheet shows the location where crabs should be placed if less than four people are playing.

Play:
Players take turns moving one of their crabs according to these rules:

• Crabs move a different number of adjacent spaces depending on their size.
• Large crabs must move 1 space.
• Medium crabs must move 2 spaces
• Small crabs must move 3 spaces.
• Crabs must crawl over other crabs, and end their move on top of a crab that is their size or smaller.
• Large crabs can end their turn on any crab.
• Medium crabs can end their turn only on medium or small crabs.
• Small crabs can only end their turn on small crabs.

There is also an important Wave Rule which states that all crabs must stay together, connected on the board in one large group. If the crabs become divided into two groups of crabs (no adjacent crab token that connects one group to the other), then one of the groups is washed away, removed from the board for the rest of the game.

When a player can no longer move, he is eliminated from the game, even if his crabs are uncovered on later turns. Once all players except one have been eliminated, that person is declared the winner.

Try this:

• Work on visual discrimination, figure ground, logic, spatial relations, manual dexterity, socialization skills, process skills, executive functioning skills, play and leisure exploration and participation

In the box: game board, 36 wooden crab tokens (9 each of four colors)
Ages 8+, 2-4 players, 20 minutes

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