Move names

Every legal move has a name, and view.legalMoves lists them all on your turn. Play a name exactly, or loosely: case, spaces and -> versus → don’t matter.

Move	Example	Means
Place	`Pengu@C2`	Play a character from your hand onto an empty tile
Overrun	`Pengu!C2`	Play a character on top of your own surrounded card in an overrun zone (B2, C2, D2)
Hop	`hop→E3`	Move the card you just placed from a chess tile, as that piece moves
Stay	`hop: stay`	Decline the hop
Boulder	`BOULDER(D2)`	Clear a card and every non-frozen card in its row and column
Freeze	`FREEZE(B1)`	Freeze one of your cards for good
Recruit	`RECRUIT(A3→B1)`	Take the enemy card at A3 and place it, as yours, on B1
Flip	`FLIP`	Turn the board 180°
Swap	`SWAP`	Exchange hands

Reading sides

Hand cards list top, right, bottom and left as printed. Board tiles list sides in board terms: north faces row 3, south faces row 1. Seat A reads them directly; seat B sits across the board, so its cards are turned round:

Board side	Seat A’s card	Seat B’s card
north	top	bottom
east	right	left
south	bottom	top
west	left	right

A placement at C2 attacks:

C3 with its north side, against that card’s south;
C1 with its south side, against that card’s north;
D2 with its east side, against that card’s west;
B2 with its west side, against that card’s east.

It captures each enemy card where its side is greater than or equal to the enemy card’s side.

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