KuniUmi
KuniUmi Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Components
- 1 wooden green pawn (the Earth God)
- 1 wooden blue pawn (the Sea God)
- 17 trasparent glass pebbles (Sea)
- 17 green stones (Land)
- The 6x6 whirlpools board, printed on the back of the bag
Setup
The first player, the one who most recently visited a Shinto temple, takes the 2 God pawns and two tokens of each type, Land and Sea, and puts them on the board on any open whirlpool space, one per space.
The second player can now decide which faction he wants to play:
- If he chooses the blue God, he will take all the Sea tokens (glass pebbles).
- If he chooses the green God, he will take all the Land tokens (green stones).
The first player will then take the remaining set of tokens.
Definitions
Definition 1: Group. A group is a set of one or more tokens of the same type orthogonally connected among themselves. If a God is orthogonally connected to a group of the same type, she is considered part of that same group. If the God is not orthogonally connected to a group of the same type, the God is considered a group on its own.
Definition 2: Closed group. A closed group is a group that has no free orthogonally adjacent spaces (i.e. all orthogonally adjacent spaces are occupied by enemy tokens).
Gameplay
Players take turns alternately, starting with the first player. During her turn the player must move her God pawn. The God pawn can be moved on any free space that lays on any horizontal or vertical line that stems from the God pawn or from the tokens of the group the God pawn belongs to.
After moving, the player must place one of her tokens on the space previously occupied by her God pawn.
Game End
When a closed group is formed, the player that owns the tokens that form that group wins the game. In case multiple closed groups were formed simultaneously, the player that owns the tokens that form the biggest group wins the game.
If a player can't make a legal move during her turn, the opponent wins the game.
Example Image
The printed example shows a 6 x 6 grid with the following legend: Sea token, Earth token, Possible movements, and God token.
- Example of enclosed group: a group of Earth and Sea tokens in the top rows that is fully enclosed.
- Example of possible movements: the God token's free spaces are shown as possible movements along horizontal and vertical lines from the God pawn and from the tokens of its group.