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- Rules for Chain Reaction
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- Chain Reaction is played on an eight by eight grid with 2 to 4 players.
- The aim is to be the last player left on the board. Players take it in turns
- to place one piece on the board. The following are the only rules:
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- 1) A piece can only be placed on a square which is either unoccupied or
- occupied by the player whose turn it is.
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- 2) Corner squares have a critical mass of two.
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- 3) Edge squares have a critical mass of three.
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- 4) Centre squares have a critical mass of four.
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- 5) If the number of pieces in ANY square at ANY time exceeds the critical
- mass of that square, then it will explode.
- When a square explodes, one piece is added to each of the neighbouring
- squares, and that number of pieces are removed from the exploding square.
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- All control is via the mouse, and the use of the icons on the right hand side
- should be fairly obvious.
- The only ones that require explanation are the player control panel,
- which is the 4 x 4 collection near the middle of the right hand side.
- There is one row of these for each of the possible players.
- If a player is available then the relevant boxes are shown in the same colour
- The first column shows the type of player (H)uman or (C)omputer
- The second column shows the number of squares occupied by the player
- The third column shows which computer player is being used:
- 0 Totally random play
- 1 Randomly selects on already owned square if available (else as 1)
- 2 A mixture of 0 and 1. The fourth column indicates the % of times it will
- play like 0
- 3 Like 1, but with a bit more thought
- 4 Like 3, but as in 2 a degree of randomness is given in column 4
- 5 A lot more thought (though it still is not brilliant once you've played
- several games), as in 2 and 3 a degree of randomness can be set in
- column 4, a better game is often obtained by setting this to about 10.
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- a final word
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- Share and Enjoy