1Mark your bite. Touch a rival tile that borders you and drag across as many as you want.
2Read the odds. Greed, hills and reaching across the river make a claim a long shot, and the numbers are shown before you commit.
3Flip the eraser. Red takes the land. Blue costs you the same number of tiles.
4Play your cards. Double, Shield, Re-flip and Judge sit in your hand until you arm one.
5Beat the bell. Recess ends after twelve rounds and the largest share of the map wins.
About it
This is a game Turkish schoolchildren played on squared paper, with the silgi: the two-tone eraser that was red at one end for ink and blue at the other for pencil. You drew a country, split it between everyone at the desk, and then argued over it one flip at a time.
Mark off a piece of somebody else's land, then throw the eraser. Red side up and it is yours. Blue side up and you hand over the same amount from your own side.
The map has ground worth wanting: hills, a river with two fords, a capital on a flag, and twelve rounds of weather. Any seat can be a person or the computer, so you can pass one phone around or play alone.
A claim marked out in the middle of the map, with the odds it earned printed underneath it.
