At the Revathi Pattathanam festival, sages were challenged to string ideas together in a logical train of thought. All but their fixed ideas were pushed into the middle by other sages.
Use one of your idea tiles to push a line of tiles. Be the first sage to line up four of your own ideas.
Let's Play!
Did you know that you can already play this game with perhaps game pieces you already have at home? All you need are an 8x8 board, discs in three different colors, and four 2x2 square tiles. Or you can even use chess pieces like the pawns. follow the rules below and simply replace the game pieces with what you have. Enjoy!
Game Rules
SET TO PLAY
Each player receives 10 ideas in their player color, either green & brown tiles, or ivory and black chess pieces
Place the ideas on the center 6 x 6 play area of the board.
PLAY
Players take turns to use one of their ideas to push other ideas. Choose a row or column, where none of your ideas or those of your opponent are closer to the edge of the board than one of your own ideas A on this row or column.
Example: Two green ideas D equal distance from each edge may be pushed by the brown player in either direction.
Green idea E, is nearer to the edge than the brown idea F so the line can only be pushed by the green player.
This idea should be pushed from the side nearest to the edge of the board on this row or column. Use this idea to push a straight, non diagonal line of one or more of any player’s adjacent ideas B one square to an open square.
An idea C without adjacent ideas cannot be used to push.
Idea E cannot be pushed upwards because no other idea is pushed in the row. An idea G can never be pushed diagonally.
You cannot push a line that includes one or more of your opponent’s fixed ideas.
END OF PLAY
The winner is the first with exactly four of their ideas F adjacent in an orthogonally straight line.
If your move causes your opponent to win, you lose, even when you also simultaneously get four ideas in a line.
Game Designer
Sean Fenemore & Khairul Hamdan
Sean & Khairul live in Australia. Sean studied game deisng before he developed Talluka.