📋 Game Overview

Players: 2 | Time: 30-60 minutes | Type: Deduction

LAP is a deductive game similar to Battleship where players must deduce their opponent's secret map.

🎯 Objective

Correctly deduce your opponent's map before they figure yours out. If you guess correctly, you win. If you guess wrong, you lose!

🎮 Setup Phase

Creating Your Secret Map:

• Each player secretly creates their map by dividing the grid into four regions
• Each region must be exactly the same size (e.g., 5 squares on 5×4 board)
• Each region must be contiguous (all squares connected)
• Use the four different patterns to mark your regions
• Click "Submit Secret Map" when done

Player vs Computer: The computer automatically generates a valid secret map for you to deduce.

🔍 Gameplay - Taking Turns

Players alternate turns. On each turn:

1. Probe: Click a grid corner (vertex) to ask about that position
2. Information: You'll see how many of each pattern touch that corner (0-4 for each color)
3. Deduce: Use the information to mark your guess on your deduction grid
4. Rearrange: Update your hypothesis as you gather more information

Continue probing and deducing until you believe you know your opponent's map!

🎨 Making Deductions

• Select Pattern: Click one of the 4 pattern cards at the top
• Mark Cells: Click grid cells to place your selected pattern
• Erase: Press 0 or click the same pattern again to erase
• Undo/Redo: Use buttons or keyboard shortcuts to fix mistakes

🏆 Winning & Scoring

Single Winner: If only one player guesses correctly, they win!

Both Correct: The player who used fewer probes wins

Both Wrong: Both players lose

Strategy tip: Try to deduce the map with as few probes as possible!

📐 Board Variants

• 5×4 (Warmup): Easier - 4 regions of 5 squares each
• 6×6 (Regular): Standard - 4 regions of 9 squares each
• 8×6 (Challenge): Harder - 4 regions of 12 squares each

⌨️ Keyboard Shortcuts

1-4: Select pattern | 0: Erase | Ctrl+Z: Undo | Ctrl+Y: Redo

💡 Strategy Tips

• Corner probes often give the most information
• Keep track of which patterns you've identified
• Look for patterns that must fit in remaining spaces
• Each color appears exactly the same number of times