Scrutiny is a strategy game where two players race to a target (denoted by the '⌘' symbol).

All pieces have the same movement pattern-- they slide up, down, left, or right until they hit another piece or the edge of the board.

Exercise: Get a red piece to the target square ('⌘') and win. To move a piece, simply drag it in the direction you want to move and release it.

Shared (yellow) pieces can be moved by either player. They have the same movement pattern as the red and blue pieces, but they have the following additional constraints:

• They can only move once (they turn black once moved).
• They can pass through but not stop in the gray center area.

Exercise: Use the shared pieces to set up and execute a win for red. Note this is the real starting position for new games, but here we skip blue's moves.

Finally, you are allowed to move any number of touching pieces in a single move. They must be touching "inline" with their direction of travel. This is called a "battery". A battery may be composed of any combination of your own pieces and shared pieces.

Exercise: Use a battery to win the game for red. To move a battery, always move the "rear" piece (it "pushes" the other pieces!). Bonus: can you get all the red pieces into a single battery?

Those are all the rules! Congrats! You've finished the tutorial. Now go to the homepage and play a game!