Description

Wunchunk is an abstract strategy game for 2 to 4 players that is played on a "hexhex" board (a hexagonal shaped board made of hexagonal cells). Recommended playing sizes are boards with 5 to 8 cells per side.

Players take turns placing stones on a hexhex board, until the board is full or until all players pass consecutively. Groups of like-colored stones are "chunks" if they contain two or more stones; single stones are merely "crumbs." The winner is the player with the fewest CHUNKS in his/her color of stones at the end of the game.

In the case of a tie in the number of chunks, the tied player with the "fewest smallest groups" wins. That is, tied players compare their number of CRUMBS; the player with the fewest crumbs wins. If the number of crumbs is also tied, then players compare their number of groups consisting of exactly two stones; the player with the smallest number of size-2 groups wins -- and so on up through the various sizes (size-3, size-4, ...) until the tie is broken. (In the two player game, an "all the way up" tie is mathematically impossible so long as the players did not prematurely pass; eventually the tie will necessarily be broken as players compare larger and larger groups. In the multi-player game, an "all the way up" tie is theoretically possible but non-existent in practice.)

In the two player game, in order to offset the first player advantage, the PIE rule applies: After Player 1 plays his/her very first stone, Player 2 then decides whether to play a stone to the board or switch colors with Player 1. (If "switch colors" is chosen, then the player who was formerly Player 1 is now Player 2, and immediately plays a stone as his/her turn #1 move.)

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