Welcome to my Github profile! We're playing The Royal Game of Ur. Game #9 is in progress, but you can join!
It's the ⚫black team's turn.
You're on a team! 👋
- If you've already played a turn this game, you know which team you're on! (you can't change it!) If it's not your turn, check back later, or ask a friend to make a move.
- If you've not yet played a turn this game, make a move now to join the :black_circle:black team.
⚫Black team: You rolled a 1! What would you like to do?
| Choices (click one of them!) |
|---|
| Move a new piece to tile 1 |
| Move a piece from tile 2 to tile 3 |
Game #9 so far
| Players in this game | |
|---|---|
| Black team ⚫ | ⚪ White team |
| @jbmagination (5) | @nirakon (7) |
| Time | Turn | Event | Issue | Board |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25th Oct 2021 14:54 | 0 | ⚫ @jbmagination started a new game | #1191 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 14:55 | 1 | ⚫ @jbmagination moved a black piece onto the board to position 2 | #1192 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 14:59 | 2 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece onto the board to position 3 | #1194 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 15:01 | 3 | ⚫ @jbmagination moved a black piece from position 2 to position 3 | #1195 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 15:10 | 4 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece from position 3 to position 4 — claimed a rosette 🏵️ | #1196 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 15:11 | 5 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece onto the board to position 2 | #1197 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 15:34 | 6 | ⚫ @jbmagination moved a black piece from position 3 to position 5 | #1198 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 15:36 | 7 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece from position 4 to position 5 — captured a black piece ⚔️ | #1199 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 15:47 | 8 | ⚫ @jbmagination moved a black piece onto the board to position 2 | #1200 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 16:15 | 9 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece from position 5 to position 8 — claimed a rosette 🏵️ | #1201 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 16:16 | 10 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece from position 2 to position 4 — claimed a rosette 🏵️ | #1202 | link |
| 25th Oct 2021 16:17 | 11 | ⚪ @nirakon moved a white piece onto the board to position 1 | #1203 |
Previous games
- A game was started on 30th Jul 2020 by @rossjrw and ended on 4th Dec 2020.
- The ⚪white team won.
- 64 players played 166 moves across 4 months and 5 days.
- The ⚫black team captured 9 white pieces and claimed 12 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 4th Dec 2020 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 11th Jan 2021.
- The ⚫black team won.
- 27 players played 145 moves across 1 month and 1 week.
- The ⚫black team captured 7 white pieces and claimed 16 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 11th Jan 2021 by @BaptisteMartinet and ended on 11th Feb 2021.
- The ⚪white team won.
- 17 players played 118 moves across 1 month and 12 hours.
- The ⚫black team captured 2 white pieces and claimed 11 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 11th Feb 2021 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 5th Mar 2021.
- The ⚪white team won.
- 17 players played 175 moves across 3 weeks and 22 hours.
- The ⚫black team captured 12 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 6th Mar 2021 by @shpatrickguo and ended on 10th May 2021.
- The ⚫black team won.
- 42 players played 162 moves across 2 months and 4 days.
- The ⚫black team captured 12 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 10th May 2021 by @HAUDRAUFHAUN and ended on 17th Jul 2021.
- The ⚪white team won.
- 34 players played 167 moves across 2 months and 6 days.
- The ⚫black team captured 7 white pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 17th Jul 2021 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 19th Oct 2021.
- The ⚫black team won.
- 48 players played 153 moves across 3 months and 3 days.
- The ⚫black team captured 6 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
- The ⚪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).
- A game was started on 19th Oct 2021 by @OmKakatkar and ended on 25th Oct 2021.
- The ⚫black team won.
- 10 players played 16 moves across 5 days and 22 hours.
- The ⚫black team captured 0 white pieces and claimed 3 rosettes.
- The ⚪white team captured 0 black pieces and claimed 1 rosettes.
- The MVP of the winning team was @OmKakatkar, who played 4 moves.
- The winning move was made by @jbmagination (#1190).
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How do I play?
It's the ⚪white team versus the ⚫black team.
The 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 of your pieces start on position 0 (the space just before tile 1). Your goal is to get all seven of them off the board by moving them onto position 15 (the space just after tile 14). This is called 🚀ascending a piece. You also want to prevent your opponent from 🚀ascending their pieces.
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 ⚔️captured! It goes all the way back to position 0.
If you land on a 🏵️rosette (tiles 4, 8, and 14), your team gets to take another turn. Also, a piece that is on the 🏵️rosette on tile 8 cannot be ⚔️captured. A piece that's trying to capture it will simply bounce off onto tile 9.
The first team to 🚀ascend all seven of their pieces — that is, move them off the board onto position 15 — 👑wins!
Watch Tom Scott play against Irving Finkel in 2017.
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 can join either team at any time, but once you're in a team, you're locked into it until the game ends. You can't play a move when it's the other team's turn.
(Before 2020-09-19, your team was determined by your username. This is no longer the case.)
There will be a list of links below the board image with each possible move. Clicking one of those will take you to a page where you can create an Issue in this repository. The fields will already be filled in and all you have to do is click Submit.
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:). No more than a minute later it should react with the 'rocket' emoji (:rocket:) to let you know that your move was successful.
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.
Check out the source branch of this repository for the source code and a
little commentary on the inspiration behind this project.
