Behold the An-Tile-Kythera, a mysterious relic with a bizarre mechanic! Unearth a new spin on Hextraction, the hackable 3D-printed board game. This is tile 3 of 5 in the paranormal Booster Pack 4: The Hex-Tiles.
The Antikythera Mechanism was a rusty clump of metal discs and rotting wood, recovered from a shipwreck near a beautiful Greek island. Though heavily corroded by Mediterranean seawater, its oddly advanced engineering sparked speculation, tall tales, and far too many ancient-alien conspiracies.
Over 100 years later, researchers used X-ray technology to reconstruct its clockwork and cracked the mystery - no aliens, no time travelers, just an elaborate mechanical star chart called an orrery, a masterwork by skilled artisans with the finest tools and technique in ancient Greece.
This elaborate playable version pays homage with a moving wheel and intriguing effect. Entering a dead end sends the ball plummeting through the board, but lets you shift the turntable one notch. Activate it enough times and you'll open a path, but beware - since any player can turn it either direction, you'll need to play your best mind games to convince opponents to help you out.
Print one Tile, Turntable, and Card. For maximum antiquity, drag each pair of 2-Color versions into your favorite multi-material machine. After printing, line the turntable up with the paths in the tile, press it down, and turn it to lock it in place. It may need a touch of grease, but it should put up a little resistance - after all, it has been rusting in seawater for millennia. I've prepared a 3MF file for Bambu printers, though you may want to print the card separately to reduce the number of filament changes.
This tile was inspired by the "Binary Tile" by ransElectronics! https://than.gs/m/884718
MODEL INFORMATION MODEL NAME Hextraction: The Spooky Tile DESCRIPTION
Conjure the spirits of tiles past with the Spooky Tile! Inspired - but legally distinct from - a Ouija board, you'll raise h*ck in any game of Hextraction, the hackable 3D-printed board game! This is tile 2 of 5 in the paranormal Booster Pack 4: The Hex-Tiles.
I doubt a Wedji board really works - would Target sell products capable of letting children commune with ghosts? Then again, there's a game piece that absorbs effects from destroyed tiles and creating rules-lawyer meltdowns as it tries its damnedest to channel their effects. Can you use the Clone Tile's effect without a ramp? Does the Tile Built for Two mean you have to bust out an axe? Will your friends let you survive long enough to resolve a second Shahrazad? I dunno. There's a reason I'm putting these crazy effects behind a paywall. Play at your own risk.
I'll tell you a couple rulings I CAN nail down:
If you copy a tile's On Play effect, it WILL NOT immediately activate. But future Spooky Tiles will. You can't copy a dead Spooky Tile. Technically, you can't copy any tile with Spooky in its name, but I hope that's never relevant. You CAN copy the same tile's effects multiple times. The effect is NOT optional - you MUST choose a tile if possible. But you CAN pick a tile with no effects. Destroyed Virtual tiles immediately return to the Virtual Pool, so they can't be chosen. When a player leaves the game, all of their tiles are destroyed and immediately removed from the game, so they can't be chosen either. Effects with the word "this" now refers to the Spooky Tile that activated the effect. Tiles specified by name don't change. Virtual, Combo, and other keywords aren't effects, so a Spooky Tile can't gain them. They implicitly have "effects," but the Spooky Tile doesn't gain those either - those are effects of the keyword, not the tile.Wow, that's actually a lot of weird interactions. Honestly, this is a weird tile in general. It's my first one with a trigger area but no triggered effect; it connects three adjacent sides and nothing else; and it interacts with destroyed tiles at all, which I've never done before.
Print TWO Planchettes, a Tile, and a Card. For multicolor madness, drag in the pairs of 2-Color files - you've got the Planchette, Tile, and Card. For single-color sexiness, drag in the 1-Color Planchette, Tile, and Card. Even if you don't have a multi-material unit, you can print the Planchette with a contrasting filament - just change layers just above the 2mm mark. If you've got a Bambu machine, the 3MF file is ready to roll. Note the base Spooky Tile is the same for 1- and 2-color. After printing, glue one Planchette onto the Card and the second onto the Tile.
If you'd like to edit the tile, the source is here: https://a360.co/3Ed3vgh While you're free to re-distribute the tile outside Thangs' paywall, I'd like to ask that you at least modify it a bit. The more people buy Booster Packs, the more time I can devote to making more.