Bandi
A hacker's virus is loose on a college student's PC. Two players, one board. The virus wants three blocks. The PC wants the virus gone. Every tile you lay has to keep the circuit legal.
type
analog · board game
players
2 (PC vs Virus)
board
9 × 9, start from center
tiles
54 drawn & printed
my part
rules · tile art · board

What it is

BandiThe board is a motherboard. The four documents in the corners are the essays and college materials the student is trying to protect. The virus starts in the middle and can only travel on red wires. The PC can only travel on blue. Purple goes either way.▼
BandiYou build the circuit as you play: draw a tile, place it, every wire has to connect to a wire of a matching colour. Then move a figure. Seize a block and you get another figure, and both of you can now use both colours. Fully block someone's path and their figure dies.
Player figures: blue X for the PC, red spiky virus
blue X = PC
red spiky thing = virus
you get one more every time you seize a block
A blank circuit tile
a blank tile
the circuit-board pattern every tile is drawn on

On the table

Two people playing the board game at a marble table
a real game, at home
Top-down view of the board mid-game with tiles laid and figures placed
mid-game — virus holds the left, PC holds the top
The empty board
the board, before anything

How a turn goes

1 · draw

Take a tile. You can hold two.

2 · build or act

Place a tile on the 9×9 board, or spend the turn on a special action: duplicate or rotate.

3 · move

Move one of your figures along a wire you're allowed on. You can't pass through the other player.

end nodes

Stand on one and you may rotate the 8 blocks around it.

turn nodes

Pass through one and your figure duplicates. Once you hold two blocks, you can also place diagonally.

winning

Virus: invade 3 blocks. PC: delete every virus. Tiles run out first? Most blocks held wins.

The tiles

BandiAll 54, drawn one by one. Straight red, straight blue, purple crossings, corners, end nodes, turn nodes. The whole game is which of these you get and where you're willing to put them.
tile 1tile 2tile 3tile 4tile 5tile 6tile 7tile 8tile 9tile 10tile 11tile 12tile 13tile 14tile 15tile 16tile 17tile 18tile 19tile 20tile 21tile 22tile 23tile 24tile 25tile 26tile 27tile 28tile 29tile 30tile 31tile 32tile 33tile 34tile 35tile 36tile 37tile 38tile 39tile 40tile 41tile 42tile 43tile 44tile 45tile 46tile 47tile 48tile 49tile 50tile 51tile 52tile 53tile 54

What I learned

Bandi(Bandi writes this part.)
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