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# GembloQ Rules

GembloQ is a board game similar to Blokus. The squares of the board are rotated by 45 degrees. The board has a diagonal size of 27 squares. In addition to the full squares, the edges also contain half squares such that the edges are straight lines.

The 21 pieces

Each player has a set of 21 pieces, which include a subset of the pieces used in Blokus, but also some pieces that contain a half square.

The board for GembloQ with the starting points marked with colored dots

As in Blokus, the starting squares are in the corners, the first move must fully cover the starting square of the color and subsequent moves must touch a piece of the player color at a vertex, but not edge-to-edge. Moves are also legal, if a vertex of a half square touches an edge of a piece of the same color.

An example position after a few moves

Scoring is done like in Blokus, half squares count 0.5 points. Bonus points are not used. Tie breaking by assigning additional values to the pieces, as described in the official GembloQ rules, is currently not supported by Pentobi.

## Rules for Two and Three Players

The game variants for two and three players use smaller boards and different starting point locations. In addition to the standard two-player variant, Pentobi also supports a game variant for two players like in Blokus, in which each player plays two colors.

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