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Rock paper scissors chess: Throwdown

This is the game that takes our name literally. A queen attacking a pawn has much to lose and little to win, so captures stop being automatic. Here the rock is a rook, which blunts scissors and gets wrapped by paper.

Rock paper scissors chess: Throwdown, a game in Rook, Paper, Scissors!

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How it plays

  1. Every take. Every take is a throw.
  2. Who wins. Rook blunts scissors, scissors cut paper, paper wraps the rook.
  3. Win or fall. Win it and you take. Lose it and your piece falls.

The details

The same throw
Both stand, and the turn is spent.
Take the king
No check. A king taken is the game, and so is a king that throws and loses.
The bar
Three seconds. Out of time, a throw is made for you at random.
At the fair
The Tinker’s fairground booth: her rock-paper-scissors machine, with a chessboard nailed to it.

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