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Author: Corné van Moorsel
Illustrations: Christof Tisch

SPEEDBOAT
Designed by Mr. Xu.

Make speed and race your speedboat through the lake.
1-2-3 DICE
Unique, new dice, made for this game.

Add 1 die to accelerate, or remove 1 die to slow down.

RACE WITH YOUR SPEEDBOAT BETWEEN THE ISLANDS AND ROUND THE BUOYS. DON'T CRASH AND FINISH FAST!

MAKE SPEED .....
*Powerboats* is an easy, tricky and fast game in which each player is a speedboat pilot.
You race, accelerate or slow down by the use of the 1-2-3-dice (3-sided).
Manage your speed well and manouver your boat fast through the course.
2, 3, 4, 5, 6 or even more players is all good for challenging races. The more players, the more competition you feel each race.

POWERBOATS MECHANIC
The numbers on your dice together show the speed of your boat.
You move your boat by this speed in a straight line. Though each turn you can go to the the left or right (60 degrees) before moving.
You hold your dice (your speed) until your next turn.
Each turn you can add or remove 1 die (maximum 1 die per turn !!!!!), to accelerate or slow down.
And from the dice you already had you can freely choose which you want to reroll.

NAVIGATE SMART
You can try to find short routes for your boat between the islands, to round the buoys short. Or search for faster paths through the lake, where you may move a longer distanse but hold more speed!
Estimate your riscs and look how fast other speedboats go.
Look forward! Crashes damage your boat and you will ultimately sink. :)
*Powerboats* is a dice game, so luck plays its role. But managing your speed the best is a challenge!
Be a fast speedboat pilot by making speed between the islands. Take the right riscs but use your brakes in time.
Each course provides new challenges.

EXAMPLES

On this rulebook front page you see the Powerboats content.

@ To build the lake you fit the 4 long ('folded') lake border tiles together to form a frame.
@ In this frame you fit the 6 lake tiles.

The whole board is ca. 70x80cm!

The 6 lake tiles you place random. So each game the islands are spread different over the lake.
The board has 2 sides. Experienced speedboat racers can try the more dangerous lake on the backside.

@ The 5 red buoys and the Start/Finish tile build a race course.
Marked spots on the board provide more than 103680 random race courses. You can build courses yourself too.

@ The 18 unique dice have only 3 sides, to roll a #1, #2 or #3.

@ The 6 speedboats have 6 player colors.
More speedboat racers can join, but they must bring their own boat. :)

@ The boat counters mark the scores during a game over several heats/courses.

@ The orange damage counters you receive when you crash on land.
Brake your speed in time !!!!!

GAME SITUATION

Here you see the 70x80cm gameboard. (This is a computer picture.)

EXAMPLE OF A BUILT COURSE

SPEEDBOATS

The speedboat samples. Oops, a wrong color ... I think Chinees like that bright orange. :)
In the published game is a 'normal' orange boat.

Game box and rulebook have 4 languages:

See the rules (4 pages):
In the game are:
Other languages to print: Italian rulebook / Hungarian rulebook / Czechian rulebook / Chinese rulebook / Traditional Chinese (Taiwan/Hongkong) rulebook / Slowakian rulebook

POWERBOATS EXPANSION 1

PLAY A 2-PLAYERS VERSION OF *POWERBOATS* ON MASTERMOVES.EU

You can play in the Daily Tournament, to qualify for the Weekly, Monthly and ultimately the Yearly Tournament. Or reach the top of the Piramid of players (though you start in level 14 from the top now). Or join the leagues competition. 112 speedboat pilots in Competition now. I am the defending champion. :)

The computer version is not the same as the boardgame.
The boardgame is for 2-6 players, especially made to fit good for more players.
The computer version is smaller. And it is without the boardgame graphics.
The courses are built different, start and finish works a bit different.
In the boardgame you get race points during 3 races (3 courses). Each race takes ca. 20 minutes. On computer each game is 1 race, though you can play in big tournaments.
The gaming site is turn-based, so you can spread your turns over several days.
But boardgame and computer version are both cool !!! :)

FIRST PHOTOS

First photo. :) Everything fits good! For the photo I did 10 turns with 6 boats.


a close-up


Purple made a mistake before taking this picture and now is far behind.

Publisher:

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Did you know ... that the Powerboats game has its origins in a ski-race prototype game I made many years ago.
Though the rules now have no overlap anymore with that game (that was a cardgame).
Starting the Mastermoves.eu gaming site inspired me to work more on the race game ideas.
In the speedboats game I'm attracted by the combi of the accelerating/braking rules and the path-search on a map (the hex grid with islands).
Finally all things fell together.
Jodelahiti!