Chess battle royale: Tumbledown

A battle royale where the fighters still move like chess pieces. You pick a king and two of a kind, then get one move every three seconds while the island shrinks to its heart.

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How it plays

1. Hearts. Take pieces to steal hearts. The last band with hearts wins.
2. One move a bell. Every 3 seconds, tap a piece, then a square.
3. The shore falls. Orange ground drops into the stars. Get off it.

The details

Your band

Eight bands drop onto a floating island: a king and two of one kind (knights, bishops or rooks), your pick in the first 9 seconds.

Hearts

Your band has 5. A piece taken, or fallen into the stars, comes back by balloon 2 bells later beside your king. No hearts left: you are out.

Autopilot

Tap another piece and it goes instead. Your other pieces step out of danger by themselves.

Two for one square

Orders land one at a time in an order the dice shuffle, never by who tapped first. The first to land moves in; the next one takes it there if it can, or stays put.

The shore

From bell 6 the shore cracks and glows orange, then falls 3 bells later: the island shrinks to its heart.

Crates and bushes

Crates drop a Heart or a Power cube (your takes cost one heart more). Bushes hide you from anyone not right next to you.

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