How to: Play Pits
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Nutnoze
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In this thread you will find out how to play my new game "Pits"

Pits requires a specific arena that's 2-d (Well, one block wide) and is constructed like so:

Note: The top row (BggWWggB) should be pushed backwards by 1 so that it is not directly on top of the other rows.

B g g W W g g B
N N N N N N N N
N N N N N N N N
N N N N N N N N
N N N N N N N N
w N N bl bl N N w
w w bl bl bl bl w w
w w bl bl bl bl w w
la la la la la la la la

Guide:
B=Black piece(third left from bottom right)
g =Glass
W=White piece(bottom left)
N=nothing
w=Sand
bl=Black Sand (5th right, 2nd row)
la=Lava / red block

How to play: One player will be black (Black sand), one player will be white (White sand), and each player will stand on one of the top pieces of their own color (IE, black in one of the middle 2 pieces, white on either of the 2 edges. Players take turns, beginning with white, as follows:

1. Delete 2 of your opponent's blocks (Black deletes Sand, white deletes Black Sand) as long as they are WITHIN RANGE of the block you are currently standing on (IE: You don't have to move to highlight them). Blocks must be deleted from the top down, you can't leave blocks above an empty space.
2. Place 3 of your own blocks (sand for white, black sand for black) - once again, no floating blocks, and the blocks you place must be within range. No, you can't jump and place blocks below you, as that would be moving which is done next.
3. Move. You can move anywhere on your OWN colored blocks, jumping is allowed, there is no penalty for touching the opponent's block, you just have to go back to your own.
4. Tell your opponent that you're done.

Rinse, repeat until:
1. A player touches the bottom lava/red blocks. This causes them to lose and their opponent to win.
2. A player stands on the top block of their color (IE, white moved from bottom left/right to top middle, or black moved from middle to top left/right). You can't jump onto this, your blocks must actually overlap the goal blocks so that you can walk right onto the goal. No, you may not walk across glass.

A glorified Pits arena
A basic Pits arena
An explanation on what I mean by the top row being offset

I hope you all understood that and have a chance to try my game at some point, I would appreciate questions/clarifications as well as comments and suggestions for improvement. :)

samohan
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Pits, good game!

I think this is an exelent idea, thanks for posting it. I think there should be more minecraft mini-games around,

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ummwat
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BTW

Color blocks aren't sand, they're cloth.

ummwat
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Never mind...

I was momentarily confused! :D

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Ok... My last comment (4th)...

It isn't black sand, it's carpet (I think).

Nice idea for a game. I added it into my game list on the Minecraft Games thread.