Rithmo vs Nobles the Game

Rithmo brings back rithmomachia, the legendary "Philosophers' Game": a strategy duel born in 10th-century monasteries, where pieces are captured by the power of numbers. Evens on one side, odds on the other. Every piece carries a number; to capture, line up an equality, a sum, a product… or trap your opponent in an arithmetic, geometric or harmonic progression. Easy to learn, dizzying to master: rithmomachia fascinated mathematicians and philosophers for seven centuries, and was long considered the great rival of chess. PLAY YOUR WAY • Solo against the AI, two levels (800 and 1200) • Two players on the same device • Online with friends: turn-based games, get notified when it's your move • Blind matchmaking with Elo rating • One-tap rematch at the end of every game LEARN AS YOU PLAY • Guided tutorial: eight progressive exercises to master every type of capture • Complete illustrated rules, available even mid-game • Visual move hints (can be turned off) • Simple mode to get started, expert mode to control everything: victory conditions, allowed captures BUILT FOR MOBILE • Smooth 3D board, optional 2D view • Replay every move of a game at any time • Elo history and tracking of your ongoing games • English and French • No ads Born a thousand years ago to teach Boethius's arithmetic, codified in print in the 16th century, rithmomachia deserved to live again. Now it fits in your pocket. Your move.

Nobles is a fast strategy board game about land, supply and sieges, played on a hand-painted map. Each house begins in its own province on a hand-drawn hex map. Every turn you move your spearmen, bowmen and knights, claim the fiefs they cross, and spend your income on outposts, villages and new recruits. Units must be fed: a soldier cut off from your castle or villages deserts at the end of the turn, so every march is a question of how far your supply line can stretch. Three roads to the crown: • Population — grow your realm to 15. • Income — earn 36 gold a turn from fiefs and villages. • Conquest — batter an enemy castle's walls to nothing and walk in. The game ends at once. Rock–paper–scissors combat you can read at a glance: spearmen beat knights, knights beat bowmen, bowmen beat spearmen. Recruiting at a besieged holding throws the new unit straight into the fight — the last line of defence. A deck of event cards turns each round: Winter freezes the lakes into roads, a Bumper Harvest fills every treasury, Banditry thins the largest army, a Peace Treaty stops every siege for a round. • 2 to 6 houses: against the computer, pass-and-play at one table, or online with friends by room code • Five difficulties, from a tutorial that teaches as you play to a Brutal AI that plays to win • Turn order rotates every round and every house starts on equal ground • A full game in about 30 minutes; autosaves so you can pick it up later • Designed for landscape on iPhone and iPad • No account, no ads, no purchases