Chess where the board crumbles under your feet
Every square you step on wears out. On the third crossing it is gone – and the tile falls when you **leave** it, so you can always stand on spent ground. You just cannot come back to it. And you never keep your own moves.
You move like the last piece you ate.
Eat a knight and you jump; eat a rook and you slide – and a rook slide melts every square it crosses, not just the one you land on. Those two rules meet in one sentence: **the shape you carry decides how much you destroy.** So the puzzle is never "find the path". It is: find the order of meals that does not destroy your way back.
69 hand-checked puzzles
Every level is verified by a solver before it ships: it is solvable, its par is the true minimum, and it punishes at depth rather than on the first move. A generator built them backwards from an intended solution; a filter threw away everything that forgave you.
Four mechanics arrive one at a time, each with a level that teaches it:
- the anvil – decay becomes reversible, once, in one place
- granite – ground with topography, not uniform rot
- the clock (level 25) – tiles marked with an hourglass rot on their own, one point every three moves, whether you touch them or not
- the road (level 65) – the sign flips: the board starts half gone and every tile you leave *alive* becomes permanent. You build instead of burn.
Also on Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum
Not ports in name only: the **same rule engine**, the same 69 levels, the same pieces. One C file compiled for the 6502 and the Z80, and a test that replays every level move-for-move against the original to prove they never drifted.
- C64 – `.d64` and `.prg`, SID music on a raster interrupt, 3×3-character tiles, joystick or keys.
- ZX Spectrum – one `.tap` for both machines: on a 128K the AY plays the same nine tunes, on a 48K you get beeper effects. The tile grid lands exactly on the character grid, so there is no attribute clash anywhere.
(Tested on actual ZX Spectrum & Commodore 64)
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