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Wurple
  Difficulty: Introductory   Keywords: Humour

Wurple is an amusing game whose name happens to rhyme with purple.

The rules are moderately simple but haven't been formalised yet. For experienced players this aspect is trivial.

The game is played on a 19x19 Grid with black and white stones. The object of the game is to achieve Wurple and it will thus usually be ended by the winner shouting "Wurple!" - however the opponent may concede beforehand if he is in a Mankilver[1] position.

One player takes the White stones and the other the Black. However it is permitted for stones to be of different size.

The Vienna Convention of 1912 allows the placing of Pac Man stones. A pac man stone can hop (iken tobi) along the board in a straight line so long as it has stones to eat. It cannot move perpindicular to its hop, or it will fall off the board. The diagram shows an example of a Pac Man Play Each player starts with 5 pac man stones.

[Diagram]
----Capturing sequence for Pac Man play----



[Diagram]
----Result of this Pac Man play----


Once a Pac Man stone has finished eating it reduces back to a normal stone.

It is expected in Wurple that groups should have 3 eyes. This is deference to the Goddess Torrange, whose meanings are many. In addition, there will be a set of cards which a player may take from the Community Chest. These contain instructions on how to Pass Go.

The 4 player version is called Rurple


[1] Mankilver defn beyond the normally defined boundaries of bad. Coincidentally rhymes with silver.



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