Squish
Period
Modern
Description
Squish is an unification game based with the theme of 'condensation'. Players take turns moving one of their pieces one space at a time toward an allied piece on the same line. If a player's piece moves to a space occupied by an opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is captured by replacement. If there is no friendly piece on the same line, the piece cannot move.
The first player to move all of his or her pieces on the board adjacent to each other or to prevent the opponent from moving wins the game.
Rules
Goal: Take turns without passing until you unify the pieces of your color into a single group.
The board starts with pieces of each color distributed symmetrically on every 3rd cell of the board.
(For a game on an order 4 board, the outer cells are not used.)
Play:
Decide which player will play with which color (Dark or Light). Light is the first player to play.
On each turn, the move one of your pieces to an adjacent space so that it is one step closer to a friendly that lies anywhere along the line of movement.
If that cell is occupied by the opponent's piece, the opponent's piece is removed from the game as part of the move.
The moving piece cannot move onto a space occupied by a friendly piece.
The game ends in a win for a player who moves all his pieces into a single group. Otherwise, if the player captures an opponent's piece leaving the opponent with only a single group of pieces, the game ends in a win for the opponent. (Unifying the pieces of both players on the same move is a win for the moving player.)
The game also ends in a loss for the first player who is unable to move, if the pieces are not yet unified.
Author
Kanare Kato
Creation date
2021-10-22
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Identifiers
DLP.Games.1671
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