1. A game was started on 30th Jul 2020 by @rossjrw and ended on 4th Dec 2020.
   • The ⚪white team won.
   • 64 players played 166 moves across 4 months and 5 days.
   • The ⚫black team captured 9 white pieces and claimed 12 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 10 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 48 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @qbtl (#269).
2. A game was started on 4th Dec 2020 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 11th Jan 2021.
   • The ⚫black team won.
   • 27 players played 145 moves across 1 month and 1 week.
   • The ⚫black team captured 7 white pieces and claimed 16 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @shpatrickguo, who played 26 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @shpatrickguo (#424).
3. A game was started on 11th Jan 2021 by @BaptisteMartinet and ended on 11th Feb 2021.
   • The ⚪white team won.
   • 17 players played 118 moves across 1 month and 12 hours.
   • The ⚫black team captured 2 white pieces and claimed 11 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 8 black pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 45 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @1ethanhansen (#535).
4. A game was started on 11th Feb 2021 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 5th Mar 2021.
   • The ⚪white team won.
   • 17 players played 175 moves across 3 weeks and 22 hours.
   • The ⚫black team captured 12 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 13 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 48 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @1ethanhansen (#702).
5. A game was started on 6th Mar 2021 by @shpatrickguo and ended on 10th May 2021.
   • The ⚫black team won.
   • 42 players played 162 moves across 2 months and 4 days.
   • The ⚫black team captured 12 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 9 black pieces and claimed 19 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @shpatrickguo, who played 22 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @crxssed7 (#864).
6. A game was started on 10th May 2021 by @HAUDRAUFHAUN and ended on 17th Jul 2021.
   • The ⚪white team won.
   • 34 players played 167 moves across 2 months and 6 days.
   • The ⚫black team captured 7 white pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 10 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @1ethanhansen, who played 31 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @1ethanhansen (#1024).
7. A game was started on 17th Jul 2021 by @1ethanhansen and ended on 19th Oct 2021.
   • The ⚫black team won.
   • 48 players played 153 moves across 3 months and 3 days.
   • The ⚫black team captured 6 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 15 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @PkmnQ, who played 13 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @OmKakatkar (#1175).
8. A game was started on 19th Oct 2021 by @OmKakatkar and ended on 29th Oct 2021.
   • The ⚪white team won.
   • 13 players played 135 moves across 1 week and 3 days.
   • The ⚫black team captured 5 white pieces and claimed 13 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 15 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @Timemaster111, who played 46 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @Timemaster111 (#1342).
9. A game was started on 29th Oct 2021 by @jbmagination and ended on 15th May 2022.
   • The ⚪white team won.
   • 80 players played 187 moves across 6 months and 2 weeks.
   • The ⚫black team captured 11 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
   • The ⚪white team captured 13 black pieces and claimed 19 rosettes.
   • The MVP of the winning team was @nirakon, who played 18 moves.
   • The winning move was made by @Madflows (#1534).
10. A game was started on 15th May 2022 by @VikashPR and ended on 29th Dec 2022.
    • The ⚪white team won.
    • 109 players played 177 moves across 7 months and 2 weeks.
    • The ⚫black team captured 9 white pieces and claimed 23 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 11 black pieces and claimed 19 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @LAPCoder, who played 11 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @LAPCoder (#1726).
11. A game was started on 29th Dec 2022 by @CostasAK and ended on 30th Dec 2022.
    • The ⚫black team won.
    • 4 players played 121 moves across 19 hours and 41 minutes.
    • The ⚫black team captured 6 white pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 4 black pieces and claimed 15 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @CostasAK, who played 59 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @CostasAK (#1844).
12. A game was started on 30th Dec 2022 by @TejaTadepalli and ended on 27th Jan 2023.
    • The ⚪white team won.
    • 17 players played 158 moves across 4 weeks and 1 hour.
    • The ⚫black team captured 9 white pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 12 black pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @TejaTadepalli, who played 59 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @TejaTadepalli (#1994).
13. A game was started on 27th Jan 2023 by @TejaTadepalli and ended on 14th Mar 2023.
    • The ⚪white team won.
    • 20 players played 153 moves across 1 month and 2 weeks.
    • The ⚫black team captured 6 white pieces and claimed 17 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 6 black pieces and claimed 16 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @TejaTadepalli, who played 65 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @TejaTadepalli (#2145).
14. A game was started on 14th Mar 2023 by @Murdeala and ended on 13th Apr 2023.
    • The ⚪white team won.
    • 19 players played 141 moves across 4 weeks and 1 day.
    • The ⚫black team captured 4 white pieces and claimed 18 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 12 black pieces and claimed 16 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @CostasAK, who played 71 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @CostasAK (#2275).
15. A game was started on 13th Apr 2023 by @thisiscoding1234 and ended on 7th Jul 2023.
    • The ⚫black team won.
    • 48 players played 122 moves across 2 months and 3 weeks.
    • The ⚫black team captured 11 white pieces and claimed 15 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 4 black pieces and claimed 9 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @Murdeala, who played 37 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @WKL10086 (#2460).
16. A game was started on 7th Jul 2023 by @kztera and ended on 26th Oct 2023.
    • The ⚪white team won.
    • 38 players played 142 moves across 3 months and 2 weeks.
    • The ⚫black team captured 5 white pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 12 black pieces and claimed 14 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @CostasAK, who played 53 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @CostasAK (#2612).
17. A game was started on 27th Oct 2023 by @blacksmithop and ended on 3rd Dec 2023.
    • The ⚫black team won.
    • 22 players played 55 moves across 1 month and 6 days.
    • The ⚫black team captured 5 white pieces and claimed 11 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 0 black pieces and claimed 3 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @CostasAK, who played 26 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @CostasAK (#2664).
18. A game was started on 4th Dec 2023 by @joshuajohncohen and ended on 11th Apr 2024.
    • The ⚫black team won.
    • 44 players played 133 moves across 4 months and 6 days.
    • The ⚫black team captured 11 white pieces and claimed 16 rosettes.
    • The ⚪white team captured 5 black pieces and claimed 12 rosettes.
    • The MVP of the winning team was @CostasAK, who played 49 moves.
    • The winning move was made by @tassiaaccioly (#2796).

It's the ⚪white team versus the ⚫black team.

The first team to 🚀ascend all 7 of their pieces 👑wins. Your goal is to achieve that, and to block the other team from doing the same.

(Learn more about the rules of the Royal Game of Ur at RoyalUr.net/learn, or watch Tom Scott play against Irving Finkel in 2017.)

Each turn starts by rolling 4 binary dice, which results in a number from 0 to 4. The current team gets to move one of their pieces by that many tiles.

All 14 pieces start on position 0 (the space just before tile 1).

Moving a piece onto position 15 (the imaginary space after tile 14) causes that piece to leave the board forever. This is 🚀ascension, and is the goal of the game — the first team to ascend all 7 of their pieces wins.

You will move your pieces along the tiles from tile 1 to tile 14.

The tiles on your side of the board (tiles 1 through 4, 13, and 14) are safe — only your pieces can be there. However, the tiles in the middle (tiles 5 through 12) are unsafe — your opponent's pieces can also be here. If one team's piece lands on the same tile as another team's piece, the piece that was landed on is ⚔️captured! It goes all the way back to position 0.

If a piece lands on a 🏵️rosette (tiles 4, 8, and 14), that team gets to immediately take another turn.

A piece that is on the rosette on tile 8 cannot be ⚔️captured. A piece trying to capture it will simply bounce off onto tile 9.

Playing Ur on my GitHub profile is easy. The dice have already been rolled for you — all you have to do is decide what to do with them. Anyone with a GitHub account can play.

Anyone can join either team at any time, but once you're in a team, you're locked into it until the game ends. You won't be able to play a move when it's the other team's turn.

The list of links below the board image shows each possible move. Clicking one of those will take you to a page where you can create an issue in this repository, where all you have to do is click submit to play your move.

It will take a moment for Github Actions to acknowledge your move, but once it does, you'll see it react with the 'eyes' emoji (:eyes:). A few seconds later it will react with the 'rocket' emoji (:rocket:) to let you know that your move was successful, then leave a comment explaining what happened, and it'll also make a commit to record your move.

(If you don't see any of that, then something went wrong. Ping me in your issue by typing cc @rossjrw, and I'll take a look.)

Note that if your team has no possible moves — for example by rolling a 0 — your turn will be automatically skipped. The event log will let you know if this has happened.

Check out the source branch of this repository for the source code and a little commentary on the inspiration behind this project.

I welcome bug reports, feature suggestions and pull requests! Just make sure you ping me in your issue or PR by adding cc @rossjrw, as I don't receive notifications for new issues in this repository (for hopefully obvious reasons).