====== Pilastri ======

Outlast your opponent in this game of blocking and moving, as pieces are forced to climb higher and higher until they run out of moves.

Under the standard rules, a piece must move higher and pieces that start with nothing beneath them can only end with a single piece beneath them.  In the High Jumpers variant, a piece still needs to move higher, but pieces that start with nothing beneath them are allowed to land on any size of stack.

The default board is 6x6, but an 8x8 variant is available.

  * Designer: Christopher Field
  * Coder: ManaT
  * Rules [[https://cjffield.com/rules/pilastri.pdf|PDF]]
  * Pilastri [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/445080/pilastri|at BoardGameGeek]]

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====== Pilastri ======

Outlast your opponent in this game of blocking and moving, as pieces are forced to climb higher and higher until they run out of moves.

Inventor: Christopher Field

===== Rules =====

See [[https://cjffield.com/rules/pilastri.pdf|Pilastri rules (PDF)]]. Default **size 6** square of stacks. Shared pillars.

==== Goal ====

The player who cannot move **loses**. The opponent wins.

==== Setup ====

The board is a grid of stacks (pillars). Opening placement fills cells according to the PDF (the engine starts with the standard size-6 array of mixed stacks).

==== Gameplay ====

The board starts filled with pieces in a checkered pattern.

Move one of **your** pieces from the top of a stack onto another stack. Pieces move like any distance up-down or left-right, but may not jump over stacks.  The destination stack must be **strictly higher** than the origin. Pieces that start with **nothing beneath them** (grounded) may only land on a stack that will have **exactly one** piece beneath them after the move — unless **High jumpers** is on.

You cannot pass.

==== Variants ====

===== Size 8 board =====

''size-8''.

===== High jumpers =====

Grounded pieces may land on **any** taller stack (''jumpers'').

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

==== Version history ====

  * Current engine version: ''20250424'' (2025-04-24). On Abstract Play since 2025-04-25.

==== Links ====

  * [[https://cjffield.com/rules/pilastri.pdf]]
  * [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/445080/pilastri]]