Keturi: 3D Tactical Board Game

Two players, one set of sixteen bricks, and a rule that turns the whole game over: you never place a piece you chose. You take one out of the pool and hand it across the table, and your opponent has to find a socket for it. Then they pick yours. No two bricks in the set are alike. Each one stands short or tall, is laid up square or round, is bored straight through or left whole, and came out of one of the two brickyards you ordered the set from. Four bricks that agree on any one of those four traits, standing in one of the patterns, end the game — and it goes to whoever set the fourth one down, however the other three got there. That is all of the rules, and it takes a minute to teach. Noticing the trap you just handed somebody takes rather longer. FOUR RULE LEVELS Each level keeps every pattern of the levels below it and adds a family of its own. • Level 1 — rows, columns and the long…