I won this game with a stack of 7 (4 colours + 3 grey):

https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1893661

Is this allowed by the rules?

the rulebook doesnt mention it specifically, but I think the intent of the designer is clear: the stack has to consist of exacly 6 pieces.

Wait, that’s clear intent? I would interpret it as 6 or more – not that I’m good at the game by any means, though.

Related to this issue, is a rule that seems to imply that we can move a grey piece on top of a coloured piece:

> If it happens that a player completes a stack of 6 pieces with a neutral piece on top, it does not count as a win. ...

But this is not implemented in golem. I can’t move a grey piece on top of another piece.

@ypercube: “neutral piece” != the gray joker/wild piece.

Neutral pieces are any stacks topped with a color not yet claimed by a player. The jokers are never claimed.

Regarding the original question:

https://www.boardgamegeek.com/article/27117604#27117604

I hope the programmers can fix this before any more games are affected.

1. It is not possible (More than 6 stones in stack). I receive email from author of game (Kris Burm) after implementation of Lyngk (and Google mark this mail as spam). I return last move in this game.

2. Grey piece is not neutral piece according to rules. It is Joker piece. Rules: https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/142605/lyngk-rules

Here is the relevant section in the rules:

“White” is distinguished from Ivory. White is actually Gray here at LG (understandably confusing):

"D.  J O K E R P I E C E S , N E U T R A L PIECES AND CLAIMED PIECES

1/  The 3 white pieces must be considered as jokers, i.e. they have the potential to represent any of the 5 active colors. These joker pieces are passive. They cannot be used to play with; they may only be moved as part of a stack"

@Zugzwand and @Richard, thnx for the clarifications. I had “joker” confused with “neutral”.

Richard, when you undid the last move, it seems I lost (perhaps on time?) although the game never appeared in my game list.

It should be my turn to play but I just got the message that I had lost the game.

https://littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1916604

Still not fixed. I was of course relying on him not being able to make that move.

Does anyone know if this has been fixed?

It is not.

https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=1916687

Bump.  I thought this had been fixed (I don’t begrudge the game, as I did not feel like I was ahead, but I didn’t think that move was going to end it).

https://littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=2052233

Oh, I thought it is legal, if Richard can undone the move, please go ahead :)

this is still not fixed, and I consider it a major bug that should be fixed right away.  It can affect strategy.  Sometimes I have calculated lines where the opponent can’t get a six stack but can get a seven stack, and I tend to avoid those lines because I don’t want the opponent to play the seven stack for an automatic illegal win that would then need to be appealed to the webmaster to revert to the last legal position.  Just make it illegal to make a stack of seven (or eight!)  OR change the rules of the game to allow larger stacks.

I just won this game by making a stack of seven (illegal win!)  but I did have a legal win on the same move (same stack captures the red/white duo on bottom of board).  Just wanted to point out that the bug is still not fixed

https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=2071961

And again, a stack of seven (I could have also played stack of six)

https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=2077896

Has anyone ever made a stack of eight?

All 3 jokers in one stack?  Without winning earlier? That sounds difficult to manage, except by agreement.

I think it is not as difficult as you imagine, but hopefully the bug will be fixed before we find out!  If you look at the two examples I give above, I have all three jokers in the final stack in both cases.

A stack of seven (I had a legal win also)

I won a very difficult game today.

https://www.littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=2118405

with a very good player, Ferdinandinho

The game went all the way to zugzwang where he had to pass twice,  and no one could make a stack of six.

However, before the zugzwang, In order to win the game, I had no choice but to allow him the chance to make a stack of seven.  He could have done so at move 22.  He told me that the system was allowing that move, but he honorably did not play that move.

I do not know much about coding, but shouldn’t this be an easy bug to fix?

It just happened, in the current championship.

I lost a game to a stack of 7.

Richard, can you roll back the game one move? 

it’s game 2154679

Here’s a game with a stack of 9.  We decided to play it out, and what happened was that when I played the last move, it through an ArrayIndexOutOfBounds exception and wouldn’t let me play.

#2159713 William Fraser vs. Schaapmans

Another game with a stack of 7, in the current championship (17).

Play is allowed to continue (!) after the stack of 7 appears.

championship 17 – Dasan vs Cassiel

Richard, can you please fix the rules of the game and not allow a move that creates a stack of 7+ stones?

The game with William Fraser is this one: http://littlegolem.net/jsp/game/game.jsp?gid=2159713

I hope it will get fixed. Appartently according to the rules a stack of 7 should not be allowed. Or since it is the highest stack win. Now William had to resign, because we could not finish the game ;-)

I just saw this thread, and after reading it, I’m still not sure what is supposed to be the right version of the rules. In connect6, overlines count as a win, so you need to make 6 or more in a row to win. My first interpretation for this game was also 6 or more disks.

Has Kris Burm ever officially said that it has to be a stack of exactly six pieces? If yes, then is creating a stack higher than six illegal, or is it just a dead stack that stays on the board, possibly consuming more disks if it gets a chance? If no, could we just say that this current implementation is correct?

I personally prefer the rule than says that it’s a win with six or more disks, if only because the two alternatives just feel unnatural to me, but I probably wouldn’t mind anything as long as there’s a consensus. 

If I remember well, the official rule is that stack of 7 or more should not be allowed.

Do you happen to remember where you’ve read that? I’m just curious because it feels like this isn’t mentioned at all in a copy of the rule book that I found online, but I somehow feel like it’s too obvious a rule to miss.