Gamehelpcantstop

2013-07-25T17:01:39Z

Chaotic iak:

Can't Stop is a game involving rolling dice and knowing when to stop pushing one's luck.

==Rules==

Can't Stop is played with a board consisting of 11 columns, numbered from 2 to 12, four dice, and three temporary pieces.

===Splitting dice===

On a player's turn, they roll the four dice, split it to two groups however they like, then advance a step on each column whose sum is equal to some group of the dice.

Examples:

* Roll: 3,3,4,4. One can split it to 3,3 and 4,4, advancing a step on each of columns 6 and 8, or 3,4 and 3,4, advancing two steps on column 7.
* Roll: 2,3,4,5. One can split it in three ways: 2,3 and 4,5 (columns 5 and 9), 2,4 and 3,5 (columns 6 and 8), or 2,5 and 3,4 (columns 7 and 7).
* Roll: 4,4,4,6. There is only one way to split it, 4,4 and 4,6, which means columns 8 and 10.
* Roll: 1,1,1,1. There is only one way to split it, 1,1 and 1,1, which means columns 2 and 2.

===Temporary pieces===

In a turn, a player may only advance in three columns. The temporary pieces are to help the player in keeping track their progresses. However, one must make as many moves as possible.

Examples:

* One hasn't moved at all and rolled 2,3,4,5. They decide to split as 2,3 and 4,5, advancing on columns 5 and 9. This is allowed; they advanced on columns 5,9. They may not choose to advance only on column 5 or only on column 9 because they must perform all moves possible.
* One has moved on columns 4 and 5 and rolled 2,3,4,5. They decide to split as 2,3 and 4,5, advancing on columns 5 and 9. This is allowed; they advanced on columns 4,5,9.
* One has moved on columns 2 and 3 and rolled 2,3,4,5. They decide to split as 2,3 and 4,5, and so should have advanced on columns 5 and 9. But this is not allowed; it makes them advance on four columns. They must pick either 5 or 9 to advance from.
* One has moved on columns 2, 3, and 12 and rolled 2,3,4,5. No matter how they split the dice, they cannot advance.

===Stopping one's turn===

A player keeps their turn until they state to stop or they cannot advance (like the last of the examples above). In the former case, the temporary pieces are made permanent; they will continue from the positions they have now. In the latter case, the temporary pieces are removed; their position is rolled back to before they have started their turn.

Examples:
* One decides to stop after advancing 3 steps on column 7, 2 steps on column 8, and 1 step on column 9, after previously have advanced 4 steps on column 6 and 3 steps on column 9. Now their position is 4 steps on column 6, 3 steps on column 7, 2 steps on column 8, and 4 steps on column 9.
* One advanced 3 steps on column 7, 2 steps on column 8, and 1 step on column 9, after previously have advanced 4 steps on column 6 and 3 steps on column 9, but then cannot advance. Their position is rolled back to only 4 steps on column 6 and 3 steps on column 9.

===Completing a column===

When one decides to stop and they have reached the end of some column, that column is scored for that player and no other player may advance in that column. For example, if column 5 has been scored and one splits a 2,3,4,5 to 2,3 and 4,5, they cannot advance on column 5 because it has been scored.

===Winning condition===

When one scores three columns, they win.

==Strategy==

The strategy of the game revolves on knowing when to stop. As one keeps playing, they still have the risk of losing all progress on the turn; stopping will save the progress but gives the other players a turn each. Knowing which is more beneficial helps.

Columns with more extreme numbers are less probable (a 2 is only scored by a 1,1 and a 12 is only scored by a 6,6, while a 7 is scored by six pairs of dice), so they have less steps to work on. One's strategy can also revolve on choosing whether to aim for middle columns or extreme columns.

Gamehelpunitedsquare

2013-06-12T05:36:09Z

Chaotic iak:

==Goal==
The goal is to be the player who has the most squares of his color.

==Rules==
The game uses pieces of six types, where each piece is in shape of a square. The sides of each piece are colored with one of red, yellow, green, blue, so that a piece has one side for each color. Each "side" appears as a triangle.

Each player on his turn puts a square next to a square already on the board. The piece may be rotated, but not reflected. The sides coinciding with previous pieces on the board must match in color.

It's possible for a blank square to be adjacent to two sides of the same color, blocking said square from being occupied (because there is no piece that has two sides of the same color).

When a player cannot put any piece, the turn is passed. In all other cases, the player must put some piece.

Due to the appearance of a side as a triangle, matched sides form a tilted square. Each of these squares scores a point for the person holding this color.

==Ending the game==
When no more piece can be put by any player, the player with the most squares of his color wins.

== Game preferences ==

The '''colorblind''' option available for this game enables an alternative setup displaying symbols on the tokens using the great color code designed by Miguel Neiva: [http://www.coloradd.net/code.asp ColorADD].

Learning the code is easy, just take a look at the following synthesis panel:

[[File:ColorADD.jpg]]

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