The Game

Chess-mical Wars

Chess-mical War

Chess-mical Wars is an interactive 4 player chess-like war game where each player strive to eliminate other player’s pawns while answering questions of different levels from the 3 subjects (KRD / CPDIC / PSLP) to score points. The player with the highest point wins the game.

Players & judge

No. of players: 2-4

No. of Judges: 1 (minimum)

Role of a Judge:

Draw out question from the Q&A deck & reads them to the player.
Gives points accordingly as stated on the card.
Table out the player’s earning and/or dismissal of points.
Make sure there’re no miscellaneous happenings throughout the game

How to play

4 players are placed at each side of the board.
8 pawns are given to each players; i.e.: 32 pawns in total. (all 4 sets of pawns are physically different)
Players will roll dice to determine which player goes first, second and so on.
After all is set, the game starts with 3 rounds, whereby the questions assigned are from the deck of lowest difficulty.
After the 3rd round (the 4th one), questions are given in order according to the question level distribution.
Process is repeated.

Questions & moves

Players are required to answer questions in order to move their pawns. Player that fails to answer the question will be penalized (no points & skip turn that round). This is the table of Blooms Taxonomy, their respectives moves and points.

King & Pawn

Pawn:

Has a normal chess pawn move and ability. I.e.: moves vertically forward & diagonally to eat an opponent.
In the first round, only pawns from position b-g is allowed to move.
Able to eat King.
Number of steps to be taken is dependent on the level of difficulty of a question.
No pawns can move backwards.

King:

A king can only move if the player is able to answer a level 6 question.
A king can only kill a pawn or another king at a time.
A king can move in all directions regardless of moves. .
Luck & Chance Draw is not applicable on King.
To be King, a pawn has to reach the direct opposite end line of his/her opponent.

How to win

Players that lose all their pawn cannot continue the game.

Players with the highest points is the winner.

THE fun

Luck & Chance Draw: 12 different cards randomly arranged into a deck.

THE Block

Since there are 4 players in the games, there is a high chance of your opponents' pawn blocking yours way. It is tricky but also tests your brain to arrange strategy. To get over this blocking, you may need to roll 2 dices. You may jump over your opponents's pawn by getting the similar numbers. There is only 1 chance per round.