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NAME

       el-ixir - a two-player board game

DESCRIPTION

       El-Ixir is a board game with an element of randomness.  It is played by two players at the
       same terminal, although it is possible to use a shared tmux for remote play.

       The game should be playable on any  vt100ish  terminal  whose  character  set  includes  a
       certain  subset of glyphs of IBM ROM BIOS, encoded as Unicode.  Terminals not meeting this
       requirement should be long extinct.

RULES

       The object of the game is to connect as many blocks in your colour to  the  corners.   The
       players take turns, being presented with four random tiles each turn.

       The game is controlled by pressing any key (not Shift or Ctrl...); q quits.

       Moving:
              To  make  a  move,  choose  one  of the four tiles that were rolled for you.  Next,
              choose a direction (up, left, right, down) and length (1-4).  If a  block  of  that
              length  won't  fit,  it's  silently  cut  to  the longest length there's space for.
              (Hint: it's almost always beneficial to choose length 4).

       Anchoring:
              If the block you placed causes some blocks to be connected to one of  the  corners,
              you will be credited a point for every tile covered by a block in your color that's
              connected to a corner by an unbroken line (via cardinal directions only — diagonals
              are not enough).

       Embracing:
              There are two types of embraces:

       •      complete embrace, when your blocks either completely enclose a part of the board or
              wall it in into a border

       •      anchored embrace, which trades the requirement of enclosing only parts of the board
              that  contain no free tiles for allowing braces that are connected only diagonally.
              It is possible that a move makes both  players  eligible  for  an  embrace  —  your
              opponent has priority.

       Whichever player gets the most points, wins.

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