Darkwaar21

Darkwaar is an experiment in creating and publishing small playable ideas regularly.

Today's puzzle

Today's Darkwaar is Darkwaar21.

The board is a cube. One hundred and twenty-five cells, five along each edge. A piece stands somewhere in that volume. There is no floor that the rules prefer.

The identifier is 2026-10-05-01M45R31801RX0NT0YAR (darkwaar21).

How to play

• Tap one of your pieces. Mint cells are steps. A rust cell is an attack
• A striker moves one cell, or strikes the next cell, along X, Y, or Z
• A beam fires up to three cells along one of those six directions. It stops at the first piece
• One action, then the enemy answers
• The sphere is the core. It does not move and it does not attack. Three hits end it
• Z− and Z+ make one wall solid, so the cube can be read. TURN walks around it
• CORE DOWN wins. CORE LOST loses. RESTART puts the pieces back

Play on itch.io

Play Darkwaar21 in the browser: https://darkwoodcom.itch.io/darkwaar21

Screenshots

The core

There is no privileged ground plane.

Up and down are directions, the same as left and right and forward and back. A striker steps one cell on any of the six. A beam uses the same six, and the first piece on that line is the end of the shot: an enemy is the target, a friend is a wall.

The core sits in the volume and waits. Yours has to stay up. Theirs has to come down.

Z− and Z+ are only for reading the cube. They do not change the rule. A step off the current wall is still a step, and it can be tapped on the wall it lands on.

Development note

One hundred and twenty-five cells. Six directions. Source: github.com/darkwood-com/darkwaar.

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