Emulsion társasjáték

Angol leírás

Introduction

Emulsion is a finite territory game for two players: Black and White. It is played on the spaces (squares) of a square board of any size. At the start of the game, all squares of the board are covered with black and white pieces in a checkered pattern. On odd-sized boards, the center square is occupied by White.

Definitions

A piece's value is the number of pieces of its color orthogonally adjacent to it plus half the number of board edges adjacent to it.

A group is a piece along with all other pieces one could reach from it through a series of steps between orthogonally adjacent pieces of the same color.

The size of a group is the number of pieces in it.

Play

Black plays first, then turns alternate. On your turn, swap the positions of two orthogonally or diagonally adjacent pieces of different colors so that the value of your piece in the pair is increased.

The game ends when there are no more moves available. The player with the higher score in the final position wins. Your score is the size of your largest group. If there is a tie, each player adds to their score the size of their second-largest group, which might be equal to that of the previous group. If the tie persists, the third-largest group is counted in as well, and so on. On even-sized boards, if it's tied all the way down, whoever made the last move wins.

Notes

Emulsion was inspired by Michał Zapała's Slyde.

—description from the designer