# 3 Quarters — complete the three-quarter circle

- From: 3 Quarters, a board game by Prayas Abhinav
- Players: 2–4 players
- Time: play to 25 points
- Made by: Prayas Abhinav, 2022, as a warm-up game for students
- Rules from: Rules, board and pieces at github.com/prayasabhinav/games, under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0; where a piece goes, what the die turns and which circles count were settled by the designer in October 2026

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'3 Quarters' is a warm up game. One is receptive, when one is perceiving risk. In '3 Quarters' we constantly feel risk. The risk of some move we are making being helpful to other players and contributing to their winning the round is something all players are mindful of.

## What it shows a designer

Every piece placed can complete someone else's circle, so each move weighs your gain against what it gives away, under a 20-second clock. It shows interaction through a shared board, and time as pressure.

## What you need

- the board, printed from https://github.com/prayasabhinav/games/raw/main/3-quarters/3-quarters-board.pdf : 3 columns by 8 rows of squares; play on the red rows with 2 players, add the green rows for 3, and the blue row for 4; the yellow squares double a circle's score
- the pieces, printed from https://github.com/prayasabhinav/games/raw/main/3-quarters/3-quarters-pieces.pdf and cut out: for each player, 8 quarter circles, two each of crosshatched (1 point), dotted (2), plain (3) and black (4)
- a four-sided die (d4)
- a phone to time each move

## How to play

1. **Set up.** Play on the red rows with 2 players, add the green rows for 3, and the blue row for 4. Each player takes their eight quarter-circle pieces. Toss a coin to see who starts.
2. **Pieces.** A piece fills one square and faces one of its four corners. Its pattern sets its points: crosshatched 1, dotted 2, plain 3, black 4.
3. **A turn.** Roll the die first. Then arrange one piece: add one of yours to an empty square, turn any piece on the board, yours or another player's, or remove one. A piece you add or turn goes round as many corners as the die shows; a 4 turns it full circle.
4. **Three quarters.** Three pieces in three of the four squares around one shared corner, each facing that corner, make a 3/4 circle. All three must have the same pattern. They can belong to anyone.
5. **Remove.** To remove a quadrant, place a quadrant with the same pattern on it. Take both (without adding the points that both pieces have). A player can remove a piece only three times in a game.
6. **Score a circle.** The player who completes the 3/4 circle removes the pieces from the board and takes as many points as the constituent pieces. If one of its quadrants is on a yellow square, the score is doubled.
7. **Keep the board.** Avoid emptying the board: the player whose move empties it loses 10 points.
8. **Time and the win.** Each move has to be made in 20 s; use a mobile to keep time. The player with 25 points first wins.

## After playing, talk about

- When did a move of yours help another player finish a circle?
- How did the 20-second limit change your play?
- Was 25 points too quick a target, or about right?

## Where the rules are written down

- https://github.com/prayasabhinav/games/tree/main/3-quarters

## Its blocks

- Core mechanic: pattern building; tile placement
- Victory condition: race to finish
- Player interaction: indirect via board
- Chance or skill: chance with mitigation
- Theme: abstract
- Information visibility: full information
- Timing: take turns; timed turns

## Saved state

boardgameBuilder reads this part back when the file is opened.

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