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TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - thorsilver - 02-26-2021
TrikeHex is a variant of Alek Erickson's Trike played on a hexhex board. This implementation offers two board shapes -- regular hexhex, and 'limping hex' which has alternating sides of length N and N+1.
There are two sub-variants that both preserve Trike's drawlessness: you may play on boards with the six corner cells alternately filled of stones of each colour; or you may play on an empty board with a slight scoring change. In the latter sub-variant, when the pawn is trapped, the player with more stones of their colour adjacent to the pawn wins, with ties broken by the colour of the stone under the pawn.
Enjoy!
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - Eric Piette - 02-26-2021
Hi,
The submitted file has some problems.
The define "(define "TriCorners" )"
has no argument but you call it with an argument in the options.
I fixed it for you, but can you confirm that's still correct to you?
If not, please update your lud.
If yes, I will add it to our dev version for the next release.
Regards,
Eric
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - Michael - 02-26-2021
This might be an annoying nitpick, but why is it "TrikeHex" and not "HexTrike"? It makes it sound like it is a variant of Hex, not of Trike.
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - thorsilver - 02-26-2021
(02-26-2021, 08:31 AM)Eric Piette Wrote: Hi,
The submitted file has some problems.
The define "(define "TriCorners" )"
has no argument but you call it with an argument in the options.
I fixed it for you, but can you confirm that's still correct to you?
If not, please update your lud.
If yes, I will add it to our dev version for the next release.
Regards,
Eric
Thanks Eric -- yes that's fine to remove, sorry about that. Originally we had included original Trike on the triangular board, but felt it was better to keep these variants separate. So that define is just a relic and no longer used.
Re: Michael's comment, I'm also happy if you want to change the name to HexTrike -- I agree that makes more sense.
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - Eric Piette - 02-26-2021
Hi,
Ok I am updating the name to HexTrike :)
Regards,
Eric
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - Eric Piette - 02-26-2021
Hi,
We encounter some problems with the starting rules used for the options "Limping-corners" with the size 16.
I guess the formula you are using is not working for it.
Can you fix it, then check also the other sizes?
Regards,
Eric
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - thorsilver - 02-26-2021
(02-26-2021, 03:10 PM)Eric Piette Wrote: Hi,
We encounter some problems with the starting rules used for the options "Limping-corners" with the size 16.
I guess the formula you are using is not working for it.
Can you fix it, then check also the other sizes?
Regards,
Eric
Yes, any limping-corners option 16 or above seems broken, sorry about that.
However, if you look closely, the positions of the two middle corners themselves change at those sizes, for some reason, so that's why the formula breaks. I didn't notice that before.
To be honest, a size-16+ board is quite ridiculous anyway :) I think the easiest solution is simply to limit board sizes to 15.
The hexhex boards with filled corners all seem to work, but there as well sizes over 15 are pretty crazy, so it's fine with me if we lose them.
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - Eric Piette - 02-26-2021
Hi,
Ok I am removing all the sizes after 16 (included).
Regards,
Eric
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - thorsilver - 02-26-2021
(02-26-2021, 03:27 PM)Eric Piette Wrote: Hi,
Ok I am removing all the sizes after 16 (included).
Regards,
Eric
OK sounds good :)
I wonder if there's a problem with the code that generates the limping-hex boards? That misalignment in the two middle corners doesn't happen in the smaller sizes:
![[Image: limp-hex-misalign-01.png]](https://i.postimg.cc/6QJsmcZW/limp-hex-misalign-01.png)
RE: TrikeHex -- a Trike variant - Eric Piette - 02-26-2021
Hi,
The picture you attached is not accessible from your message.
Regards,
Eric