 Stonehenge Hippie Festival
Stonehenge is a game system, akin to Icehouse
pyramids and playing cards, which allows you to play numerous
different games with the same set of pieces. The basic system
includes a gameboard, a deck of cards, colorful tokens and discs
and markers for 5 players, and a set of cool plastic Trilithons.
(That's what they call those pairs of standing stones with a
third one on top.) The basic set includes rules for 5 games designed
by 5 world-famous game designers.
Stonehenge:
Nocturne is an expansion set which includes pieces for 2
more players and rules for 4 new games designed to require both
the core set and the added pieces.
Stonehenge Hippie Festival is one of the games included in
Nocturne, and was designed by Andrew Looney
at the request of the other designers on the Stonehenge project.
In the game, the players are hippies attending a festival held
on the grounds of Stonehenge. All around the Trilithons are vendors
selling refreshments of six different types, and you move (and
dance!) around the circle trying to collect either a whole lot
of one kind of snack, or a complete set of snacks to take back
to your friends. You can also win by hanging banners on the Trilithons.
Such banners get taken down quickly by others, but if you can
keep three flying at once, you win!
Stonehenge Hippie Festival was inspired by the Stonehenge
Free Festivals, which started in 1972 but were halted by
the British government in the mid-eighties. The turning point
came on June 1, 1985, when cops beat up hundreds of New Age Travelers
(hippie families living a nomadic lifestyle) in a notorious example
of police brutality now known as The
Battle of the Beanfield. However, this game takes place in
a happier time, when the Hippies were (or will be) free to dance
as they wish under the solstice moon at Stonehenge.
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