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Overview |
Pods is a two-player board game invented by Vincent Everaert in 2010. There are two variants of the rules: "Standard" and "Advanced". |
Board |
PODS is played on a board with a grid of 36 points, some of the points are connected with lines. The board orientation is chosen randomly (i.e. it can be rotated by 90o, 180o or 270o). The adjacent points on the board are said to be connected if there is a line between them.
There are two players in the game: White and Black. Each player initially has 14 different pods of their color on their hand. Pods are pieces, which have a number of short and / or long legs pointing in 8 directions (diagonal and orthogonal). Below is the list of all available pods: White pods: Black pods: |
Standard Rules | ||||||||||||||||||||
The game begins with an empty board. Starting with White, players take turns placing a pod of their color on some empty point on the board. At the beginning of the game the White player can only choose to place one of his two bipods (a two-legged pod). A pod always faces its owner, the eyes watching the player. A player can place his pod on any empty point that meets both of the following two conditions:
The game ends when one of the players is not able to put any of his remaining pods. The other player wins the game. |
Advanced Rules |
The game begins with an empty board. Starting with White, players take turns making one of the following:
After placing or moving a pod, the player takes off the board all blocked pods (i.e. pods with no connected adjacent empty points in the directions of pod's legs). All the blocked player's pods are returned back to the player while all the blocked opponent's pods are placed aside (i.e. they are not returned to the opponent). It may certainly happen that the moved or placed player's pod will be among the blocked pods. A player wins a game when he gets rid of all of his pods (note, that those pods, which are returned back to the player, must be placed again). A player also wins a game when his opponent doesn't have any legal moves. |