Keep Your Pieces Safe
Rules v2.8 · Video version 7
Music: Unequal Routes

PIP: Helmet fitted. I am ready for the safety round.

CLICK: The helmet is not defense. This video has no answer timer. Take your time.

PIP: Then I will answer slowly. Helmet on.

CLICK: From the drawer. Proposal: the helmet counts as defense. Overruled. The card says one.

COACH: Hello. Somebody wants our Hi.

COACH: The Sjor's speed is one. One square, one action.

COACH: The Sjor's attack is two. Water beats Fire, so add one. That makes three.

COACH: Three damage against defense one. A hit removes the Hi.

PIP: Then the Hi steps back one square, to D3.

COACH: The Sjor cannot stand on our Hi. It must stop next door, on D4.

COACH: That trip is three squares. Three squares is three actions.

COACH: Then the hit. Four.

CLICK: Four is their whole turn. It fits.

CLICK: Count their trip. Then count their hit.

CLICK: Their whole turn: four actions.

CLICK: Hitting the Hi on D3 would take all four.

COACH: Now the Hi stands on D2. Can this Sjor reach it and hit it?

COACH: Say it, point at a podium, or take the time and say nothing.

COACH: To hit D2, the Sjor must stand on D3. That trip is four squares.

COACH: The Sjor arrived beside it, with no action left to attack. So: no.

CLICK: The hit would be a fifth action. There is no fifth action.

CLICK: Name for the file: the Missing Fifth.

COACH: Our Hi has speed two. D4 to D2 was one trip, one action.

CLICK: The counting did it. The helmet has filed a complaint.

CLICK: The Sjor is standing on D3 now. Next turn it is one action away.

CLICK: Four squares. Speed two. Two actions, then the hit. Three.

PIP: So D2 was never the safe part. The Sjor's speed was.

COACH: One to ask whoever plays with you. Which retreat would you pick, and why?

CLICK: Count their trip. Then count their hit. The buzzer stays in the drawer.

COACH: Today was plenty. Next time, a clock that resets only when an attack removes an enemy.