Filler — Rules

Valuable cells and paints

A 15×15 board, 7 colours, with special cells marked by symbols:

• Valuable cell (8 of them) — counts as two. The score, the equator and the winning threshold are all counted by weight: the board is worth 233 points in total, and you need more than 116 to win.
• Paint (4 of them) — when you capture it, you immediately take all free neighbours of the paint, whatever their colour. If one of them is a paint too, it fires next.

A paint is a way to break through an awkward colour: it is worth changing your route for it. Valuable cells decide close games, and it pays to cut them off first. The variant is unrated. All rules are in the basics.