This will be important for scoring at the end. Though the art cards to not show it easily – the telescope is broken up into three areas: Top, Middle and Bottom. If you do not have this type yet, you can play it anywhere. When you play a card to your Telescope if you already have a card of that type played, this new card must be physically adjacent to at least one card of that type. If you took a satellite card from the row this turn, your opponent can choose to have you discard the entire market and deal out a fresh set of 5 cards. The card taken here is played in whichever area (Telescope or Notebook) which did NOT get a card in Phase 2.Ĥ] Refill the Row – Refill the one or two empty spots in the market from the top of the deck. If that slot is empty (because you took that card in Phase 1 of this turn), you take mystery meat from the top of the deck. Make careful note of the rank of the card you just played.ģ] Play Card from Row – now, take the card from the slot in the row which matches the rank of the card you just played. To do so, you will always follow these same four phases.ġ] Add Card to Hand – from the display of five cards, choose any one card and add it to your handĢ] Play Card from Hand – now from the three cards in your had, play a card to either Telescope area or your Notebook area. Essentially, each turn, you will play 2 cards to your area, one to your telescope and one to your notebook. The game is played over 11 rounds (to completely transform your telescope picture into an array of celestial objects). A market is set up with the top 5 cards of the deck being dealt beneath the numbered cards which go from 1 to 5.

The rest of the celestial objects cards are shuffled and each player is dealt a hand of 2 cards. Players get two start cards one of which is placed at the top of their telescope pyramid and one which is placed underneath the telescope in the Notebook area. Each player has an array of 12 cards which forms a beautiful piece of art depicting a telescope. In Stellar, the two players are astronomers who are competing the see the most beautiful display of celestial objects in the night sky.

Parts of a telescope three part cards