User:Numaris/Thought Monument Test

Test of the Name Pending

This is a description of a test to consider for inclusion on the
Tale 4 Monument of Thought. Suggestions and general discussion are
encouraged. Please use the Discussion page, rather than directly
editing this page.

Hapi has been displeased!

The Nile is flooding rapidly under the god's wrath. Though the crops have been harvested, they have not yet been hauled in off the banks of the river. It's up to the estate owner to direct his itinerant workers to get the grain off the flood plain before it washes away.

The game board consists of a 2-dimensional square (or rectangular) grid filled with blocks representing workers. The top of the board represents the open land, and the bottom represents the encroaching water. Each worker block has two traits: role (represented by a heiroglyph on the block) and tribe (represented by the color of the heiroglyph). There are three roles (foreman, loader, hauler), and three tribes (red, blue, green). The object is to remove all blocks from the board in sets of three. Three blocks can be removed only if all of the following are true:

• The blocks are adjacent and aligned horizontally or vertically (in a line, no L-shapes).
• At least one of the blocks touches the top of the board.
• All three blocks are either all the same tribe, or all different tribes. If two are from one tribe, and the third from another, the two will conspire against the third to keep a larger share of the pay.
• All three blocks are either all the same role, or all different roles. Three of the same role can agree amongst themselves to share the duties, but two will simply bicker incessantly.

If all of these conditions hold true, the estate owner (player) may remove them from the board, and the rising waters will force the blocks in the affected columns to move up to fill the vacated space.