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Classic Situations

Six short positions on the eight-piece board, each showing one idea the game is built on. Pick a move, then read why. These are positions we built to show each idea, not records of real games: no collection of recorded hidden-army games is licensed for reuse that we know of.

Setting out the first position…

Each answer is checked by the same engine that plays the game: it tries every enemy army you could not rule out from what is on the board, and the answer works in all of them. Want the story of where the game came from? Read Fog of War, 1908.