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Who's on each team?

What's happened so far?

Previous games

1. A game was started on 30th Jul 2020 by @rossjrw and ended on 4th Dec 2020.
   • The :white_circle:white team won.
   • 64 players played 166 moves across 4 months and 5 days.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 9 white pieces and claimed 12 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 10 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 48 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @qbtl (#269).
2. A game was started on 4th Dec 2020 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 11th Jan 2021.
   • The :black_circle:black team won.
   • 27 players played 145 moves across 1 month and 1 week.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 7 white pieces and claimed 16 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @shpatrickguo, who played 26 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @shpatrickguo (#424).
3. A game was started on 11th Jan 2021 by @BaptisteMartinet and ended on 11th Feb 2021.
   • The :white_circle:white team won.
   • 17 players played 118 moves across 1 month and 12 hours.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 2 white pieces and claimed 11 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 8 black pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 45 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @1ethanhansen (#535).
4. A game was started on 11th Feb 2021 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 5th Mar 2021.
   • The :white_circle:white team won.
   • 17 players played 175 moves across 3 weeks and 22 hours.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 12 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 13 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 48 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @1ethanhansen (#702).
5. A game was started on 6th Mar 2021 by @shpatrickguo and ended on 10th May 2021.
   • The :black_circle:black team won.
   • 42 players played 162 moves across 2 months and 4 days.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 12 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 9 black pieces and claimed 19 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @shpatrickguo, who played 22 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @crxssed7 (#864).
6. A game was started on 10th May 2021 by @HAUDRAUFHAUN and ended on 17th Jul 2021.
   • The :white_circle:white team won.
   • 34 players played 167 moves across 2 months and 6 days.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 7 white pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 10 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 31 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @1ethanhansen (#1024).
7. A game was started on 17th Jul 2021 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 19th Oct 2021.
   • The :black_circle:black team won.
   • 48 players played 153 moves across 3 months and 3 days.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 6 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 15 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @PkmnQ, who played 13 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @OmKakatkar (#1175).
8. A game was started on 19th Oct 2021 by @OmKakatkar and ended on 29th Oct 2021.
   • The :white_circle:white team won.
   • 13 players played 135 moves across 1 week and 3 days.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 5 white pieces and claimed 13 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 15 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @Timemaster111, who played 46 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @Timemaster111 (#1342).
9. A game was started on 29th Oct 2021 by @jbmagination and ended on 15th May 2022.
   • The :white_circle:white team won.
   • 80 players played 187 moves across 6 months and 2 weeks.
   • The :black_circle:black team captured 11 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The :white_circle:white team captured 13 black pieces and claimed 19 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @nirakon, who played 18 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @Madflows (#1534).

Rules of the game

It's the :white_circle:white team versus the :black_circle:black team.

The first team to :rocket:ascend all 7 of their pieces :crown:wins. Your goal is to achieve that, and to block the other team from doing the same.

(Learn more about the rules of the Royal Game of Ur at RoyalUr.net/learn, or watch Tom Scott play against Irving Finkel in 2017.)

Movement

Each turn starts by rolling 4 binary dice, which results in a number from 0 to 4. The current team gets to move one of their pieces by that many tiles.

All 14 pieces start on position 0 (the space just before tile 1).

:rocket:Ascension

Moving a piece onto position 15 (the imaginary space after tile 14) causes that piece to leave the board forever. This is :rocket:ascension, and is the goal of the game — the first team to ascend all 7 of their pieces wins.

:crossed_swords:Capturing

You will move your pieces along the tiles from tile 1 to tile 14.

The tiles on your side of the board (tiles 1 through 4, 13, and 14) are safe — only your pieces can be there. However, the tiles in the middle (tiles 5 through 12) are unsafe — your opponent's pieces can also be here. If one team's piece lands on the same tile as another team's piece, the piece that was landed on is :crossed_swords:captured! It goes all the way back to position 0.

:rosette:Rosettes

If a piece lands on a :rosette:rosette (tiles 4, 8, and 14), that team gets to immediately take another turn.

A piece that is on the rosette on tile 8 cannot be :crossed_swords:captured. A piece trying to capture it will simply bounce off onto tile 9.

How to play

Playing Ur on my GitHub profile is easy. The dice have already been rolled for you — all you have to do is decide what to do with them. Anyone with a GitHub account can play.

Anyone can join either team at any time, but once you're in a team, you're locked into it until the game ends. You won't be able to play a move when it's the other team's turn.

The list of links below the board image shows each possible move. Clicking one of those will take you to a page where you can create an issue in this repository, where all you have to do is click submit to play your move.

It will take a moment for Github Actions to acknowledge your move, but once it does, you'll see it react with the 'eyes' emoji (:eyes:). A few seconds later it will react with the 'rocket' emoji (:rocket:) to let you know that your move was successful, then leave a comment explaining what happened, and it'll also make a commit to record your move.

(If you don't see any of that, then something went wrong. Ping me in your issue by typing cc @rossjrw, and I'll take a look.)

Note that if your team has no possible moves — for example by rolling a 0 — your turn will be automatically skipped. The event log will let you know if this has happened.

Behind the scenes

Check out the source branch of this repository for the source code and a little commentary on the inspiration behind this project.

Contributing

I welcome bug reports, feature suggestions and pull requests! Just make sure you ping me in your issue or PR by adding cc @rossjrw, as I don't receive notifications for new issues in this repository (for hopefully obvious reasons).