The four games that were listed but not written. Nothing in the
catalogue is marked "coming soon" any more.
Checkers is English draughts on the thirty-two dark squares, numbered
the way the game is written down. Captures are compulsory and a multiple
jump is one move object, so a player cannot stop halfway through one —
true by construction rather than by a rule that has to be enforced
somewhere. The move generator matches the published perft counts at one
to four ply (7, 49, 302, 1469), which fold in compulsory capture,
crowning and the men's forward-only rule all at once.
Backgammon's hard rule is not how a checker moves but that a player must
use as much of the roll as they can, and that cannot be checked one move
at a time: a move can be illegal precisely because playing it strands
the other die. So the generator works backwards from whole turns —
memoised depth-first over the remaining dice — and offers only the first
steps of the longest plays. Recomputing it after each checker is what
makes the rule true by construction. Every die comes from the table's
seed and a count of rolls made, which is in the state rather than beside
it so a game is reproducible from what crosses the wire. There is no
doubling cube; the rules document says so plainly.
Mastermind is played as a duel — both players are set a code and both
are breaking one — because the pencil-and-paper game gives the codemaker
nothing to do. It ends at the foot of a round, never mid-round, or going
first would be worth half a guess. It is the one game here with anything
to hide, so viewFor does real work: the host sends each device only its
own code, and a device that was never given a code refuses to score a
guess against it rather than quietly answering "nothing".
Pirates and Bulgars is Sackson's theming of Asalto, and the rules
document is explicit about which parts are attested and which had to be
chosen — the book could not be obtained. Two hunters who take by
jumping against twenty-four who cannot take at all, on a thirty-three
point cross whose drawn lines come from the same adjacency table the
moves come from, so the board and the rules cannot disagree.
130 unit tests across the four engines, all run locally as well as in
CI: game/ has no Android in it, which is what makes that possible.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
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