Weekly Challenge 84: Do Not Retrace Your Steps
Win a game of Amazons vs @PS-Greedy-Two-Move when on each turn you fire your arrow back to the square you just moved your Amazon piece from.
Adjudication Criteria:
1. Fewest moves (plies)
2. Earliest Entry
Closing Date: Monday 18th November 1200 UTC+0
Weekly Challenge 84: Do Not Retrace Your Steps
Sorry @e-pluszak, but move 23 does not follow the rule of this challenge. All of the other 39 moves do!
I thinl that firing addition would make for a great variant of this game! Would anyone want Amazons with this arrow shot restirction sometime?
It would make a variant, but I’m not sure it would make a great variant. It stops being like amazons really.
There are games like this though, Battle sheep, Hey that’s my fish, Icebreaker, mattock. I do feel like these have some more interesting themes to them.
Essentially in this variant you’re just deleting the tile you stand on. I think though, being able to move in 8 directions means it’s probably doesn’t block paths very well so it might not be as enjoyable as if the same style game was played on a hex grid. Or sometimes a square grid where you can only move four directions is too restrictive to be interesting.
There’s a lot of game design questions there to tackle.
Does this one look ok? I think I’ve double checked it now. 30 moves, 59 ply
playstrategy.org/GlwmYgfyVXPX
Already from trying this challenge, Amazons is a much more interesting game than a variant where you just break the block you’re standing on :)
27 moves 53 ply
playstrategy.org/qMQB0VN0
25 moves 50 ply (as black)
playstrategy.org/H5xOjJgE4ZLh