Threats

The catalogue of nine rules: what each does, how the player reads it, and which level teaches it.

The game’s whole vocabulary of threats is nine rules, a number kept small on purpose: each rule has to be explainable in two sentences, readable on the board without text, and introducible alone in a tutorial level.

The rule catalogue maps all nine and links each to its own page. Three are enemies: the sentry and the patrol, whose sight is lethal, and the chaser, whose sight is not and which catches only by contact. Four are not threats but answers on your side: the bell stone, the hiding spot, the key and the takedown. The remaining two, tolls and caravan members, add a question of order.

Every rule has its own page. When a level has you stuck, the question is usually not how to escape but which of your tools opens that node.