In this game, the four players and four guests will attempt to score points by completing tasks using actions in different territories.

This game takes place in turns and there are no set rounds. Some definitions:

• A turn is a single player's turn.
• A cycle is every 8 turns.

At the start of this game, the turn order for the first cycle is randomized.

Play will continue until 17 tasks are complete. Throughout the entire duration of this game, players and guests alike are free to wander into any room at any time.

▶️ Start of Turn

At the start of your turn, you may choose to give up a token.

Choosing to give up a token awards you with a swap. You may choose to swap two players' turn order for the next cycle — however, you may not swap players that have already had their turns swapped in the next cycle. You will submit the swap publicly and will be announced.

After this, you will draw your action tokens for the turn. The standard token count (if none are given up) is 3. You may do so by using the >draw [number] command with [YellOw]. For example, >draw 2 will draw 2 tokens. You will randomly draw that many action tokens, with each action token having a uniform chance of appearing.

If you are unsatisfied with your random draw, you may mulligan and draw again by spending 1 garnet. When doing so, please type "I AM MULLIGANING" or an equivalent to let the dealers know. For this purpose, guests will start with 6 garnets in this game and cannot transfer them to players.

You will then have some amount of time to place these tokens on the world map.

🪐 Polus

Among Ox takes place on the distant planet of Polus, which is divided into six different territories. Each turn, you will play your actions sequentially in specific territories to aid in completing a task. Each territory also has a task difficulty, which signifies the number of actions needed to complete the task in that territory. The map that this game will be played on is as below:

On your turn, you may choose to place the tokens you drew all in the same territory, or across different territories. While there is no strict time limit, please do not take too long or the dealers will force you to play a move.

To play out your turn, ping Marcer. Then, you will be dragged into the Dealer Room to submit your actions. Please also remember to specify the order in which you play your actions.

When a territory matches or exceeds its task difficulty in token count, the task in that room will be considered complete. The action tokens in that room will all be removed and they will trigger their scoring conditions.

🕶️ Disguise

However, within the Dealer Room, you may choose to disguise a single action. This means you are pretending to do an action, when in reality, you are lazing around. That is, if you drew three ASSORTs, you can choose to play two ASSORTs and then pretend to play an INVEST. Tokens that are disguised all become LAZE tokens — your laziness will sabotage the territory such that none of the tokens in it score at completion, and the task is also considered to have failed.

What tokens are placed where and when by whom are publicly revealed in #match-updates. However, LAZEs are declared as their disguise and are never revealed. This also means that, throughout the game, your point totals will not be publicly declared.

🪙 Action Tokens

There are 7 action token types that you can draw in this game, and each one scores differently. There is also the eighth LAZE action that you may only obtain through disguise. All actions only score at task completion.

1. ASSORT: You gain points equal to the number of actions that appear exactly once in this territory at completion.
2. GATEKEEP: You gain points equal to the number of territories with no actions, times two.
3. HUG: You gain points equal to the number of unique players with actions in this territory.
4. INVEST: You gain points equal to the number of tasks successfully completed divided by two (rounded up).
5. MULTIPLY: You gain 1 point per other MULTIPLY in this territory.
6. REBUKE: You gain 3 points if there is a LAZE in this territory. The LAZE is also rebuked and its effect is cancelled, and the player who lazed around loses 3 points.
7. SEIZE: You gain 5 points if you are the last player to play SEIZE in this territory.
8. LAZE: The LAZE action stops all scoring from occurring when the territory's task completes.

👑 Winning

At the end of the game, everyone's point totals are revealed.

The top two scorers of Among Ox will win Tokens of Life. The non-guest player with the least amount of points is the Elimination Candidate.

However, if a MAJORITY of tasks were failed, the top two players who were sabotaged the most by LAZEs will win Tokens of Life. Here, "sabotaged" is defined per token — that is, if a room was sabotaged and you had 3 tokens in that room, you were sabotaged 3 times. Of course, LAZE tokens cannot be sabotaged and thus do not count to this score. In this case, the non-guest player who was sabotaged the least will be the Elimination Candidate.

If a guest is among the top two in either situation, they will have their Token of Life converted to a month of Discord Nitro (or any reasonable equivalent prize).

Players with Tokens of Life will also gain 5 garnets each.