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====== Mattock ======

In Mattock, you play miners digging corridors through the rock. You can't dig too closely together though, or the mine will collapse. To win, trap your opponent so they run out of space to mine.

Inventor: Drew Edwards

===== Rules =====

See [[https://mattock.drew-edwards.com/|Mattock]]. Hex-hex board (default **base 7**).


===== Variants =====

==== Smaller board (base-5) ====

Hex-hex-5, three miners each (''size-5'').

==== Randomized board ====

Starting miner positions are shuffled (''random'').

==== Freestyle placement ====

Players take turns placing miners with no two adjacent. After all miners are down, player 2 **passes** once so player 1 mines first (''freestyle'').

===== Further details =====

==== Version history ====

  * Current engine version: ''20260503'' (2026-05-03). Fixed the size-7 start (a miner that belonged on ''e1'' had been on ''d1''). On Abstract Play since 2024-01-07.

==== Abstract Play ====

  * A **hide blocked** display option turns off highlights of cells that cannot be mined.

==== Links ====

  * [[https://mattock.drew-edwards.com/]]
  * [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/320505/mattock]]