Bucky:FAQ
From Carls wiki
Q: Why is the game called "Bucky"?
A:According to the original announcement from 2004, for lack of a better name. The name derives from the pet name for spherical fullerenes (called buckyballs), which in turn get their name from Richard Buckminster Fuller, a famous architect who built domes. Apart from the name, Bucky is completely unrelated to chemistry.
Q: Is the dude allowed to take another piece?
A:Yes the dude may take a piece when moving (given that the move is otherwise legal of course)
Q: Is it okay to escape buck by teleport?
A:Yes you can escape buck by teleport. Of course the move must also be legal as for example: either of the teleporting pieces must be unhypnotized.
Q: Am I allowed to make a move that makes another one of my pieces doubly hypnotized and hence taken?
A:Yes a move that you make is allowed to remove one of your own pieces as long as it isn't the piece that you are moving. However, this only goes for pieces removed by double hypnosis; the jedi's capacity to take other pieces, for example, is restricted to only taking pieces from an opponent.
Q: If a jedi would want to take a piece on the fourth row on it's first move the notation does not show where the piece ends up. For example:
c2ye4 doesn't say if the white jedi is on c3 or d3 after the completion of the move. Why is this?
A:This move is not allowed. A jedi may when standing on the second (or seventh row for black) only move two steps (or one) as a move. Not move and take.
Q: What happens in this situation? Will the Chameleon die? If so, will it die even without the jedi?
A:Yes, and yes it is doubly hypnotized even without the jedi. A Chameleon can never move into a situation like this one since it would be a suicide mission and such are strictly forbidden in Bucky.
- On the other hand in this example no Chameleon is doubly hypnotized:
- This is because only one hypnosis originates from one corner of the Shaman. One direction correspons to one hypnosis. In the first case there are two hypnoses involved, one from the shaman and one from the chameleon.
Q: Is the white dude bucked? Because if the white dude is bucked that would mean that the black wagon would smash the white dude of the board but in doing so it would reveal a double hypnosis on the two black chameleons and then self be doubly hypnotized...
A:This is a tricky case but yes the white dude is actually bucked. This phenomenon can be viewed as the game is ended as soon as a the dude is taken or that suicide missions are alowed when they include taking the opponents dude and thus winning the game.
Q: Is the white dude bucked?
A:The black chameleon is hypnotized and may not use the madam's vengefulness to take the white dude, because a vengeful move must take the piece that hypnotizes.
Q: What happens if white moves CD1-D3?
A: The black chameleon is removed from the board. This is a case of the quantum-mechanical nature of the Jedi double movement. The white chameleon actually moves both ways through both C2 and E2 and in both cases gains hypnotic abilities and thus in both cases hypnotizing the black jedi on squares C4 and E4. Since it is two different directions the black chameleon is doubly hypnotized.
Q: What about this case? It is not two different directions...
A: The black chameleon is still removed. Well it's actually not the directions that matter but sources.
