Rules for Milton Bradley's Crossfire Game

Setup

• The game board is approximately 80 cm by 100 cm in size and is shaped like a stretched octagon. A red pellet gun on a swivel is mounted at each long end of the board, and small plastic fences border the actual field of play. Each player operates one of the guns and also has his own small plastic disc with a ball bearing in its center.

Geography

• The field of play is an octagon. It is colored purple, red and yellow with lightning bolts. The areas outside this field are yellow and black and are the "goal areas," which are partially blocked by the fences. There are openings in the middle of the fences to allow for balls and discs to enter.

Shooting

• The players load several small silver ball bearings into their guns to use as pellets and place their discs on the field. The game begins once they load the guns, when they can immediately begin shooting. They must aim their gun at their own disc and shoot pellets at the disc to try to push it toward their opponent's goal. They can also shoot at their opponent's disc to keep it from going into their own goal. For safety, the guns are designed to "shoot" the pellets by rolling them down a ramp instead of firing them in the air. Players can use only the pellets to move a disc.

Scoring

• A player who lands his disc into an opponent's goal scores. The first to do this three times wins. Stalemates can happen if the players run out of pellets. However, since the pellets should all run into either of the goal areas for reloading, this is unlikely to happen. Players can reload their guns with any pellets that roll to their own end of the board; they can't take any from the other side.

Differences From the Original

• The original game by Ideal had a larger, rectangular board and discs of the same shape. In the MB version, one disc has a triangular shape and the other is shaped like a star with many points.