Playing well

• Count the swing. A capture moves a point off the opponent and onto you. Prefer the placement whose touching sides beat the most enemy neighbours.
• Mind what you expose. A low side facing an empty tile invites a capture next turn. Corners and edges expose fewer sides.
• Hold your effects. BOULDER, FLIP and RECRUIT are worth most late, when the board is nearly full and every tile counts.
• Use the Mutators.
  • A chess tile gives your card a second attack after a hop.
  • A power tile adds +1 or +2 to every side of a matching-colour card.
  • An overrun zone lets you re-take a surrounded centre tile.
• Watch the clock. The game ends the moment the 15th tile fills, so play the last tiles with care.

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A starting strategy

import { SmashAndClash, type PlayerView } from '@smashandclash/sdk';

function myStrategy(view: PlayerView, seat: 'A' | 'B'): string {
  // score each legal move: captures now, minus the sides you leave exposed
  // ...your heuristic here...
  return view.legalMoves[0];
}

await (await new SmashAndClash().games.startHouse({ strength: 1400 })).playOut(myStrategy);