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Who Should Play
Expanding Territory
Expand your territory by drawing paths and marking areas, then filling in the blank spaces on the map with your representative color.
Avoid Being Left Behind
During movement and expansion, be sure to protect the trail you leave behind. If another player touches your trail, you will be eliminated immediately.
Eliminate the competition
By strategically maneuvering, try to make other players collide with your trajectory line to eliminate them from the game.
Top the Charts
The objective is to achieve the highest percentage of territory control or total score in the current match to reach the top of the leaderboard.
How to Play
Core Mechanics: Territory Conquest
- Movement and Drawing: Players control a colored square moving across the map. While within the territory of their own color, they remain safe; once they leave the territory, a trail line (“tail”) is left behind.
- Enclosing Territory: After moving a certain distance, connect your trail back to existing territory to form a closed loop. All empty areas within the loop or any surrounding opponent's territory will automatically be claimed and converted to your color.
Elimination Rules: Risk and Safety
- Trail Vulnerability: When expanding beyond your territory, the exposed trail you leave behind is your fatal weakness.
- Touch and You're Out:
- If another player's body or trail line touches yours, you are immediately eliminated and lose all occupied areas.
- Accidentally touching your own trail line also results in elimination.
Frequently Asked Questions
Capture as much territory as possible (achieve the highest percentage), become the player with the largest land area in this round, and survive until the very end.
By touching the trail lines (tails) left behind by opponents during expansion. Note: Directly touching their physical territory will not eliminate them.
This is because your trace line has been disrupted — either you accidentally touched your own line, or another player touched your line.
Yes. Through enclosure operations, when the closed loop you form surrounds an opponent's territory, that area will be absorbed by you and converted to your color.
