Oakmoss Draughts
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About this game
Standard English draughts (American checkers) on an 8x8 board: captures are compulsory, a jumping piece keeps jumping, reaching the far row crowns a king and ends the move, and forty moves each without a capture or a man moving, or a third repetition, is a draw.
How it works
You play the acorns and move first. Easy looks one move ahead, shows hints and allows unlimited undo; Medium searches four moves with a simple winning plan and three undos; Hard searches six moves with positional judgement and one undo; Inferno deepens its search to a fixed budget with endgame knowledge and no undo.
Twelve Problems ask you to force a win within a set number of moves. Records, solved problems and an unfinished game stay in this browser; a match abandoned for a new one counts as a loss.
Controls
- Tap or click an acorn, then a glowing square
- Move; tap each landing square of a multiple jump
- Drag an acorn
- Move by dropping on a glowing square
- Arrow keys, then Enter or Space
- Move the cursor and pick a piece or square
- U, H, M
- Undo, hint (Easy) and sound
Devices
- Desktop and laptop, with a keyboard
- Touchscreen phones and tablets
The listed devices describe intended input support, not a browser compatibility guarantee. Phone testing on real hardware has not been done yet.
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