In this Main Match, attempt to recreate your bought sheets on the larger canvas by placing colors.
| Designer(s): pseudonam | Match Type: MM (for 6 players) |
| Featured in: Genius Game 4 | |
Help Pseudonam multitask his modern art homework with GG4 by creating a collective masterpiece!
Summary
Buy sheets from the auction, then recreate them on the larger grid by placing colors!
Setup
The game will be played on a 5x5 square grid. At the start, every space on the grid is white.
At the beginning of the game, each square on the grid will start colored white.
Gameplay
There are six rounds in this MM, 24 hours each. In each round, players will both bid for sheets and splash colors onto the grid.
Players are given 30 bidding tokens and gain 10 each bidding round. These carry over onto later rounds.
A sheet is a connected series of squares with each square containing a specific non-white color (red, blue, yellow, purple, green, or orange). Each sheet is identified with a different integer ID, and will be able to fit in a 4x4 square. In the bidding round, for each sheet, players can bid any amount to attempt to purchase it. Each sheet starts off with a score value of n+r, where n is the number of squares on the sheet and r is the round number -- for example, a sheet with 5 squares on Round 3 has a score value of 8.
The first round will have ten sheets available. All future rounds will have seven sheets available.
If a player has the highest bid on a sheet, that player loses that amount in bidding tokens and gains the sheet. If a player does not have the highest bid on a sheet, that player does not pay and does not gain the sheet. If there is a tie for first place, nobody pays and the sheet is discarded. It is possible to have multiple sheets. All sheets gained are public.
Players cannot bid more bidding tokens overall than they have.
Each player can add a primary color (red, blue, yellow) to a single square on the grid. That square, and orthogonally adjacent squares, will have that color added (the grid does not loop over). Once all players have added colors to their given squares, the following will occur:
The final color of a square is determined by the primary colors already on it and all primary colors added that round. If a primary color that is added is already on that square, nothing happens, and if a primary color is added multiple times in one round, the square is treated as if that primary color was added only once.
If a square only has one primary color on it, it stays that primary color.
If a square has two primary colors on it, it becomes the combination of the two. Red and blue make purple, red and yellow make orange, and blue and yellow make green.
If a square ever consists of all three primary colors, it becomes white, and all the primary colors on it will be reset for the next round.
If there is a series of squares on the grid that matches a series of squares on a sheet (it cannot be rotated nor reflected), the owner of the goal sheet scores as many points as the score value of the sheet, and the goal sheet is discarded. White squares on the sheet do not count (they are background tiles). The sheet is then discarded.
All remaining goal sheets continue into the next round, losing one score value in the process (minimum of 1).
Results
At the end of the game, the player with the most points wins Two Tokens of Life, ties being broken by bidding tokens remaining. If there is a further tie, all tied players receive a Token of Life, provided there are exactly two of them. The player with the least points is EC.
Players earn a garnet for every 25 points they have.
Submissions
Submit the numbers that correspond to any amount of sheets, and how many bidding tokens you are bidding for them. Also submit a space and a primary color.
You have 24 hours to submit.
Garnets/Items
One garnet can be converted into one bidding token at any time.
Seven garnets can be used to submit another space and another color, and this will count as an extra submission. You can only do this once per MM.
(There is a 48 hour pregame before the MM begins)
Clarification: All claimed sheets and final bidding results (ie which player took which sheet) are public. Grid submissions are not public, but the final state of the grid is.
Clarification: Sheets can be scored as early as the end of the round in which they are bought.
Clarification: If sheet matches multiple figures in the grid, the owner of that grid does not score multiple times. Also, sheets are discarded once scored.
Clarification: Sheets are scored even if the exact coordinates don’t align — for example, if a sheet consists of a singular red square, if there was a red square on any location on the grid, that sheet would be scored.
(Essentially the coordinates on sheets are just for reference and don’t matter)
Clarification: If there is a tie [for first place], nobody pays and the sheet is discarded. This has been reflected.
Clarification: If all players have the same final score, the player with the most remaining bidding tokens wins (and chooses EC out of those with the least).
Clarification: Bidding zero is the same thing as not bidding.
Addendum: A space is black if a square consists of three primary colors (and then gets reset for the next round). This was removed from the rules by mistake at some point -- sorry.
Edit: If all players have the same final score a new MM will be played. This edit has been made since the previous clarification was too close to the previous deadline to be fair.
@Player
In this case, garnets will not be given out.
Clarification: ToL Winner(s) determine the EC in case of a tie.
Auction (The game involves an auction in which players participate.)
Bidding (The game involves auction-style bidding.)
Grid-based (The game involves play on a grid.)
Points-based (The game involves players earning points.)