In the "pijersi" game, two players, White and Black, move their cubes, alone or in dynamic stacks, which either capture each other according to the major roles of "rock", "paper" and "scissors", or are blocked by the minor role of "wise". The goal is to reach the opponent back row, with at least one major cube.
This video (in French) gives an overview in 3 minutes.
Number of players: 2 / Minimum age: 8 years / Game duration: 15 to 30 minutes
Game kind: cross win condition, stacking and capturing; abstract game
Author: Lucas Borboleta, © 2022, CC-BY-NC-SA
Credit for 3D pictures: Tabletopia
You can learn the rules :
- by reading the rulebook with animated pictures (ou les règles du jeu en français);
- by reading the paper version (ou la version papier en français);
- by watching the video-rules (ou les vidéo-règles en français) ;
- by watching the recorded matches on the LucasBorboleta YouTube channel;
- by studying a few registered games as animated pictures and text notations.
- by playing against the Windows application pijersi-certu that shows the possible moves.
You can play for free:
- on Windows desktop, against the artificial intelligence agents (AI) of the application pijersi-certu ;
- on the Web platform Tabletopia, against on-line players, at Pijersi.
You can craft your own physical game of Pijersi under the copyright conditions mentioned below.
A few crafting options are given in the DIY document.
For this purpose, some drawings are available to you in the pictures folder in the following formats: PNG, SVG and WMF. Also, the original GeoGebra files are provided.
- By Lucas Borboleta: a Python Alpha-Beta AI agent, which is interfaced with a 2D GUI. The project is available as a single Windows executable.
- By Eclypse Prime: a powerful C++ Alpha-Beta AI agent, which is interfaced with a 3D desktop Unity GUI.
Copyright (C) 2022 Lucas Borboleta.
Pijersi, rules of a strategy game for two players, by Lucas Borboleta (https://github.com/LucasBorboleta/pijersi) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.
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