How To Play
OBJECTIVE: Travel to all three Landmarks, collect a Star from each, then return to your portal to complete a Cirkit and restart the magic!
Set Up:
1. Open game board in center of playing space
2. Shuffle cards, place on side of board with room for discard, put Cirkit Stars in the Magic Pond.
3. Every player should roll the dice, choosing both their character and starting portal in order from highest roll to lowest.
Turns:
1. Roll the die and move along the path’s Surge Spots (you may not move diagonally)
2. After moving, draw a card from the deck and complete the given action before moving the card to the discard pile.
3. If a player lands on a Landmark Spot, they can get a star by correctly explaining the properties of the component in most recent Cirkit card on the top of the discard pile
Component: Resistor
Action: -2 Spaces
A resistor works a bit like the skinny part of an hourglass; imagine the sand inside of the hourglass is an electrical current. Then the neck of the hourglass slows down the sand as it falls, just like a resistor slows the flow of electricity in a circuit! This is really important, because too much electricity in a circuit can sometimes hurt other parts of the circuit like lightbulbs, by causing them to explode.
An integrated circuit is like the brain of a device. The integrated circuit is made of tiny components that can process signals or data to control voltage and current, just like a brain telling you what to do! The same way that the brain holds ideas, the integrated circuit holds the logic for the larger device. Because of their size, ICs are helpful in gadgets because they do not take up too much space!
Component: Integrated Circuit
Action: +1 Card
Component: Short Circuit
Action: -1 Turn
Component: Capacitor
Action: +3 Spaces
Think of electric current like water rushing through a pipe. If the water is running really hard and fast, and the pipe’s walls are not very sturdy, a lot of pressurized water can cause the pipe to be damaged, or even break, causing lots of leaks, or a very large spill. This is similar to how current can damage a circuit or cause fires.
A normal battery takes a long time to fill up, and releases energy in more controlled amounts, kind of like a water-gun. A capacitor is like a water balloon. It fills up super quickly, and when it explodes, it releases tons of water super fast! This means that capacitors can release a lot of energy at once, and charge super quickly, making them useful for energy storage.
Component: Diode
Action: Switch Order of Play
A diode works a bit like a see-saw. Diodes direct energy flow in just one direction. But like you can kick up and switch the way seesaws tip, removing a diode means the current can switch the direction that it flows in! A diode makes it so that electricity can’t go backwards unless the diode is removed, just like a see-saw stays tipped one way or the other until someone kicks off from the ground to change direction.
Component: Fuse
Action: Steal Opponent's Turn
A normal battery takes a long time to fill up, and releases energy in more controlled amounts, kind of like a water-gun. A capacitor is like a water balloon. It fills up super quickly, and when it explodes, it releases tons of water super fast! This means that capacitors can release a lot of energy at once, and charge super quickly, making them useful for energy storage.