🟠 Draughts
Draughts in the Brazilian kitchen-table dialect: a man captures forwards only, and whoever declines a capture can have the piece huffed off the board.
- 2 players
- Table game
- In your browser, free
- With friends or against bots
This is not federation draughts, and that is a choice
Almost everything follows Brazilian draughts: flying kings, a capture sequence that must be played to the end, and captured pieces only leaving the board once the whole sequence finishes. But two points diverge deliberately, because they are the ones everyone learned at home.
A man captures forwards only
An ordinary man does not capture backwards. The only exception is continuing a sequence that already started forwards — then it may come back. A crowned king captures in any direction.
In practice that changes the whole opening: leaving a piece behind your opponent's line is considerably less dangerous here than under federation rules.
The huff
Capturing is not forced by the engine. If a capture was available and you played something else, your opponent gets seven seconds to huff: to remove from the board one of the pieces that should have captured.
That restores a layer the automatic-capture rule removes — paying attention to your opponent's move starts scoring points. It also allows the deliberate sacrifice: declining a capture on purpose, betting that your opponent will not notice.
If you prefer the classic, the room has a forced capture option, where the engine simply will not let you make the wrong move.
Crowning happens only at the end of the move
A man that passes through the last rank in the middle of a sequence and keeps capturing does not become a king. Crowning only happens when the move ends with the piece resting there. It is the rule that causes the most arguments at a kitchen table, and here it is implemented the right way.
Against the bot
The level changes how far the bot looks at the exchange — that is, whether it notices that the capture which looks good hands over three pieces in a row. And the easy bot sometimes declines a capture, which means you get to huff it: the most direct way to learn the mechanic without losing the match to it.
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