5.3 Post-Resolution

Once one of the players has Resolved a game (or round), his or her pieces may not move again in the course of that game/round. Since the player who resolves the game may well owe this fact to pure chance, the non-resolved player receives a post-resolution chance to complete his or her own resolution pattern. The procedure for post-resolution play, in which only the player who is not resolved moves his or her pieces, is as follows:

1. If the Unresolved player already has three connections at Resolution, then the game (or round) is ended. Otherwise, if the Unresolved player has fewer than three connections, he or she should roll the die as usual, immediately following Resolution.

2. If it is possible to move any currently unconnected piece the exact number of spaces indicated by the die roll, allowing movement through but not into any Points of Contention and make a connection, the Unresolved player may do so.

3. If the Unresolved player made a connection on the Post-Resolution roll, then he or she may roll the die again, moving another as yet unconnected piece according to the above Post-Resolution movement rules, earning another die roll if a connection is made on that move.

4. This process continues until the Unresolved player either cannot make a connection with the die roll he or she received, or until the Unresolved player has three connections.

5.3.1 Scoring

To determine the winner of the game (if you must), each player should tally up the number of spaces influenced by connected pieces of his or her color, excluding any points of contention from this tally, and any player whose pieces are in a Resolved pattern adds an extra six influence points for the balanced pattern of three connections between six pieces he or she has achieved. The rationale behind the six-point Resolution Bonus is that player with a Resolved pattern receives influence points not only for the spaces his or her pieces influence, but also for the spaces they occupy.

Note that spaces influenced by pieces which are not connected are not added to this tally.

Note also that the tallies should reflect the number of spaces influenced by pieces of that player, which is not necessarily the sum of the number of spaces influenced by all of that player's pieces. If, for instance, a player's connections were such that more than one of his or her connected pieces influenced the same space, that player would add that space only once to his or her tally, since the tally is of total spaces influenced. Of course, if this same space were also a point of contention, neither player would not be allowed to add it to his or her tally at all.