Catchup vs Morphy Chess Puzzle Solitaire

Catchup is a simple game of surprising turnarounds. "Catchup is as elegant as a game can reasonably be, presented in a marvelously user-friendly way.” -Pocket Tactics (5-star review) "If you're even a little bit into strategy games, you need to get some Catchup all over your mobile device." -Touch Arcade (4 & 1/2 star review) Can you have the largest group at the end of the game? Connect your hexes to master this beautiful abstract strategy game. Features: - an interactive tutorial to teach you how to play - a challenging AI opponent whose difficulty changes as you play - online turn-based multiplayer via Game Center - two-player pass-and-play on the same device - beautiful and haunting music by Tori Kamal - minimalist graphics with customizable colors - Game Center Leaderboards & Achievements - simple and easy to learn rules and gameplay - difficult to master strategy Here are all the rules: 1. One player plays all the hexes of one color and the other player plays all the hexes of the other color. The first player begins by claiming 1 empty hex for their color. 2. Starting with the second player, each player must claim 1 or 2 hexes on their turn. 3. If the largest group of hexes at the end of a turn is larger than the largest group of hexes at the beginning of that turn (regardless of color), the next player may claim up to 3 hexes on their turn. (This does not apply after the first player claims a single hex in step 1 above.) 4. The game ends when the board is full. The player with the largest group wins. If the players’ largest groups are the same size, compare their second-largest groups, and so on, until you come to a pair which aren’t the same size. Whoever owns the larger of the two wins. Catchup is an original Board Game designed by Nick Bentley.

Clear the board, one capture at a time. Every piece has to go, and the only legal move is a capture. Take a knight and you become the knight. Take a bishop and you move like a bishop. Pick the wrong order and your piece is stranded with nothing left to take — so you read the position again and find the line that works. Real chess rules, one new idea. A knight still moves like a knight; a bishop still cuts the diagonal. What changes is the goal: no opponent, no clock, and nothing to lose. Just a position, and whether you can see the way through it. WHAT YOU GET • Over 6,000 hand-checked boards across 250 packs • 10 piece types — the six from chess, plus four that only exist here! • 5 board sets to unlock as you clear the campaign • Difficulty that climbs as you go, and eases when you need it • Five skills for when a position will not fall: hint, undo, shield, morph, hammer HOW IT PLAYS Boards start at 3x3 and open up as you go. Every pack is a handful of positions with one honest solution each — solvable on the bus, and worth a second look at home. Almost every pack is untimed: take the minute you need. A few carry a clock as a challenge, and you will see it before you start. PLAY HOW YOU LIKE No account needed — the whole game works without signing in. Sign in with Apple only if you want your progress to follow you to a new phone. Plays offline. No ads, anywhere, ever. ABOUT LIVES AND COINS A run costs a life, and lives refill on their own over time. Coins buy skills and refills, and are earned by playing — or bought in the shop if you would rather not wait. Everything purchasable can also be earned by playing.