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 6×6, but an 8×8 variant is available.

• Designer: Christopher Field
• Coder: ManaT
• Rules PDF
• Pilastri at BoardGameGeek

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

See Pilastri rules (PDF). Default size 6 square of stacks. Shared pillars.

The player who cannot move loses. The opponent wins.

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).

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.

size-8.

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

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

• https://cjffield.com/rules/pilastri.pdf
• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/445080/pilastri