⚽ Grid Soccer

How to play

Win: most goals after 50 turns (25 each). The clock maps turns onto 90 minutes.

Your turn

1. Formation (optional, switch freely): tap your team panel's card, as often as you like before ending your turn. Arrows always preview every teammate's auto-move (1 square toward its slot, taken when your turn ends). Slots slide sideways toward the ball.
2. Pick a footballer: defaults to the ball carrier (or your closest player to the ball). Tap another teammate to control them instead — until you move or act, then you're committed.
3. Movement is a step budget (SPD squares; SPD−1 while dribbling) spent in any number of segments, before and/or after your action — zig-zag as you like. You can run through occupied squares (never stop on them); dribbling through an opponent triggers a challenge: opposed 2d6+CTL (+support, ties win). Lose by 1–2 and the ball is knocked loose; lose by 3+ and the defender steals it where they stand — your run still finishes.
4. One ball action: tap your selected player to cycle views — action ring (with odds) → stats → minimal. Ring actions: pass, shoot, steal.

Undo/redo movement freely — but every dice roll is a checkpoint: once dice hit the table, nothing before them can be taken back. Keyboard: ⌘/Ctrl+Z undo · ⇧⌘/Ctrl+Shift+Z redo · Esc cancel/close · Space or E end turn.

Dice (all rolls are 2d6 + stat ≥ target)

• Pass (PAS): target 6, +1 per 3 squares of distance. Miss = ball scatters 1–2 squares. Anyone standing where it lands takes it.
• Shoot (SHO): target 6, +1 per 3 squares beyond 2, +1 for corner cells, plus the tight-angle band of the square you shoot from (the reddened squares near the goal: count columns off centre, subtract rows out from the goal line, clamp to 0–3). Shooting straight from a corner adds a further +3. Doubles on an accurate shot = unstoppable. Otherwise the defender taps a dive cell on the goal, and the save scales with how close the guess was: exact cell = certain save; 1–2 cells off (fewest cells between them) = save on 2d6+CTL ≥ 8 + 3 per cell; opposite corner (3 off) = no chance. The keeper's position matters too: +2 to the save target per square they stand off their goal mouth, and 3+ squares away = stranded, no save at all. Miss by 1 = loose rebound. A keeper who only scrapes the save (beats their target by less than 3) can't hold it — he palms it behind for a corner. Beat it by 3+, or make the no-roll save, and he gathers it.
• Loose ball: land on it. Free if no opponent is adjacent; otherwise opposed 2d6+CTL (tie = you).
• Steal (CTL): stand adjacent to the carrier, roll 2d6+CTL ≥ 8 + their CTL.
• Outnumbering: on pickups and steals, add +1 per extra teammate adjacent to the contest (beyond the opponents there), capped at ±2. A 2-on-1 is a real advantage.
• Out of bounds: the flattened ring around the pitch. Wayward shots, scattered passes and deliberate clearances can all cross it. Restart goes against whoever touched it last: touchline = throw-in (pass only), end line = corner (pass or shoot!) or goal kick. The taker stands out of bounds and must put it in play.
• Set-piece shape-ups happen before the restart is taken. Throw-in: both teams take one extra drift step toward their formation slots — defence first. Goal kick: two steps each. Corner: both teams forget their formation card and jog up to 4 squares toward the box instead (defence first), and the defending keeper goes straight onto his line.
• Offside is judged when you pass, never when you run. Run wherever you like. But you may not pass to a teammate who is, at that moment, all three of: in the opponent's half, ahead of the ball, and beyond the second-last defender (keeper included — if he charges upfield the line comes with him). Flagged teammates show a 🚩 while you aim. Passing into empty space in front of a runner is always legal — that's your through-ball. No offside from a throw-in, corner or goal kick — though if you carry the ball away from the set piece first, the exemption ends and normal offside applies.

Charges & abilities (draft mode)

• Earning (each once per your turn, bank cap 6): attempt a pass +1 · attempt a tackle +1 · dribble through a defender +1 · attempt a shot +1 · end your turn without the ball +1 · concede a goal +2. Attempts count whatever the dice say.
• Spending: every drafted star has one unique ability (shown on their card). Activate from the ring; any number of activations per turn, but each player only once per turn. Keeper abilities trigger while picking a dive.
• Fouls: a frozen player lies down for their next turn — no moving, no drifting, no supporting.

🎲 Plays on paper too: a 9×18 grid, 14 coins, 2 six-sided dice, beads for charges, and the numbers above.

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