Fowl Play

forty pieces, one flag, and an opponent that is quietly working you out

You play Your formation Pieces shown as Time per move sideways

Status

Place your pieces

Pick a rank, then click one of your squares. Click a placed piece to take it back.

0 of 40 placed

What you know about them

Hover an enemy piece to see what it could still be.

Off the board

yours

theirs

Moves

Ranks run 1 (highest) to 9. S is the spy: it loses to everything, but kills the 1 if it strikes first. B is a bomb, which destroys any attacker except the 8. F is the flag. Bombs and flags never move. The 9 moves any distance in a straight line. The winner of a strike takes the loser's square.

Opponent engine inspired by Peter N Lewis’s winning entry to the MacTech Programmer’s Challenge, August 1997, used with his kind permission.
Game written for Mac in 2003 by DucK.
Ported to the web by DucK & Claude, 2026.