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Harvest

Harvest is a two-player abstract strategy game played on a hexagonal grid. Each space on the board starts with a piece. On a turn, a player can either remove a completely surrounded piece or move a piece to an empty adjacent space if it passes over another piece. If a move splits the board into multiple groups of pieces, the smaller groups are removed. The goal is to be the player who removes the most pieces by the end of the game when only two pieces remain.

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Harvest

Harvest is a two-player abstract strategy game played on a hexagonal grid. Each space on the board starts with a piece. On a turn, a player can either remove a completely surrounded piece or move a piece to an empty adjacent space if it passes over another piece. If a move splits the board into multiple groups of pieces, the smaller groups are removed. The goal is to be the player who removes the most pieces by the end of the game when only two pieces remain.

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HARVEST

A two-player, perfect-information, abstract strategy game that is played


on a base 4 hex-grid (3 and 5 are also interesting). The game begins with
a piece on every space, and all of the pieces are exactly the same.

The initial position on a base 4 board.

Each turn consists of two steps. On a given step a player may either
remove a piece or move a piece.
To remove a piece it must be completely surrounded on that step
(no adjacent empty spaces).

The pieces marked with red are completely


surrounded and may be removed.
To move a piece:
There must be an empty space to move it to along the
6 directions of the hex grid.
It must pass over at least one other piece.
The destination space must have at least one of it's adjacent
spaces occupied.

The piece marked with blue may move to the empty spaces
marked with blue.
Notice that the spaces marked with yellow each fail to
satisfy one of the three conditions.
There can only be one "group" (pieces connected by adjacencies)
on the board after a step.
If there is more than one group on the board after moving a piece
(which could be referred to as "splitting") then all but the biggest group
are removed to complete the step.
If the biggest groups are of equal size then the player may chose which
one to leave on the board.

The group marked with red is


smaller than the unmarked group
and must be removed.

At least one piece must be removed from the board on every turn (either
directly or by splitting).

For example, the rst step of ones turn


could be used to move to a space that
completely surrounds a piece.
Followed by a removal for
your second step.

Both steps could be used to


move pieces if it yields a
splitting-removal.

The game ends when only 2 pieces are left in play.


If a player cannot find a way to remove at least one piece on their turn
(while there are more than 2 still in play), then they lose.
Players cant pass entire turns, but they may pass single steps.
Once the game ends, whichever player has removed more pieces (either
directly or by splitting) is the winner. So they should keep their removed
pieces organized as they play
Whichever player moves first could have a substantial advantage. Giving
player-one only a single step on their first turn alleviates those feelings
considerably.

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