The Rules of Topple

Some refer to the game of Topple as the "gambit game", a slow burn where every move is a give and take, every piece placed is a new stage for hot and cold negotiation. Playing Topple to win requires you to live in the mind of your opponent and to understand totally the hand you are dealing. The following are the axioms by which the game of Topple comes alive.

The Premise

To win a game of Topple, your pawns have to be the last standing on the board. you begin the game with eight pawns and place your first pawn on the first turn.

Two Moves

After all players take the first turn, the normal game begins. Other than the games name sake, the topple move (which is conditional), you are allowed to place a piece or move a pawn.

Placing pieces

You can place a piece up to two grid spaces away from any of your pawns. You can also stack pieces on top of one another which does different things sometimes.

This is what happens based on the height of the stack of pieces:

1. On the first piece nothing happens
2. On the second piece nothing happens
3. The player to place the third piece gets a pawn ontop of the stack
4. The player who places the fourth piece gets a topple

placing any piece on a stack greater than four pieces is a topple