THE GRUG · Playtest

Setting up the table…

Version

Day and night is the new idea on trial. The main version is the game it would replace. The three earlier ones are kept for comparison.

Against the computer

You play one side and the computer plays the other. It does its own set-up.

Two players, one screen

Pass the mouse. The table tells you whose turn it is.

Two players online

Create a room, copy its link and send it. Whoever opens the link takes the side you did not pick.

Open "Player aid" at the top for a one-screen summary of the version you picked. The full rules are on the rules page.

Player aid

The barbarian wins

The moon side wins with 8 towers on the board, or when no square beside the barbarian is empty.

Everything moves in straight lines, never diagonally. "Beside" means up, down, left or right.

The barbarian: 3 actions

Charge. Slide until something stops you, then hit it. You cannot charge if the square right beside you is occupied.
Plant.

The moon side: 3 actions

A piece can do each kind of action once per turn. One star head can move, burn and collect in the same turn.

Move one square.
Burn a forest beside it. A snake is left there.
Collect a snake beside it. One in hand at most.
Build with the snake:
The wizard creates a star head beside his tower. He does not move by himself.

Reading the board

The round button under the board shows a sun by day and a moon by night; its small number is the round.
Rings mark where the selected piece can go or act: yellow for the barbarian, white for the moon side. A flame burns that forest, a hand picks up that snake.
A cross marks the piece a charge would hit. A red ring means that move would lose you the game.
Forests: nobody enters a forest, the barbarian included. They block every slide, the savage's too.
A new star head the wizard creates can act straight away, in the same turn.
Your portrait: the dots around it are the actions you have left. Click it to see your score and how each side wins.

The star, on every new tower

Set-up order