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WYPS - new word game (updated)

Submitted by Richard Malaschitz ★ on Wednesday, 20 May 2009

After several months and years of investigation and testing I finally invent a new board word game.

Rules

Game is played on triangular board with hexagonal spaces. Board has 16 spaces to a side. For quicker game is possible play on smaller triangle – 13,10 or 7 spaces to a side.

#1045817 Richard Malaschitz ★ vs. ranka bot
Move: 0


WYPS stones.

There are 136 stones with letters. Stones have two distinct sides, each side representing one player.

Game play.

1. All stones are put into bag. Random four (for first black move only three !) stones are put on RACK and four letters are put on POOL.
2. Player on move create one word from letters on board and from letters from rack. Player must use at
least one letter from rack. New letters have color of player. If player used in his word some
opponent’s stones, she turn one of these stones to player’s color. If player is not able create any
word, he put only one stone from rack on board.
3. After move, player fill rack to four letters from pool and fill pool to four letters from bag.
4. The first player to connect all three sides of the board wins.


Variants

For WYPS exist several variants. On LG is implemented:

Standard game in four standard sizes (7,10,13,16)

Full-board variant for size 7 and 10. Game in full-board variant is finished when there is no valid move (board is full of letters).

Arithmetic sequence. Game is played with numbers 0-9. Accepted are arithmetic sequences (0-1-2, 2-4-6-8, 1-4-7) or set of the same numbers (5-5, 7-7-7).

Prime number. Game is played with numbers 0-9. Accepted are all primes: 2,3,...97,...,3533,...,27644437,...


Final position
#1045817 Richard Malaschitz ★ vs. ranka bot


Comparison with other word games:


* No draw
* Can be played on different sizes of board
* No point counting
* Simple rules

Availability



This game will be published by RANKA company. More info will be on pages: www.wyps.info. There is published one basic problem.




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