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Jul 27, 2025·How to play·07:53·761·Watch on YouTube

How to Play The Fractured Flat, by James Ernest

James Ernest

James Ernest

Watch “How to Play The Fractured Flat, by James Ernest,” a how-to-play guide for The Fractured Flat from James Ernest on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by James Ernest on YouTube:

James Ernest of Crab Fragment Labs explains how to play The Fractured Flat, a pure abstract game for two players. The board for the Fractured Flat is a chaotic field of 45 spaces, with each color indicating the number of adjacent spaces (between 2 and 6). Players take turns placing or moving pieces, and scoring points as they go. You may place only in open space, and spaces are open for you only if (a) all lower-sized spaces are occupied, or (b) you already have a piece in a space of similar rank. You may move only into a space that is one side larger than the space you are moving from. The game ends when the scoring marker moves off the track, or when either player runs out of pieces. You can learn more about The Fractured Flat and many other excellent games from Crab Fragment Labs. Crab Fragment on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/crabfragment The Fractured Flat: https://crabfragmentlabs.com/fractured-flat Crab Fragment Labs: https://crabfragmentlabs.com/

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The Fractured Flat

The Fractured Flat

2024·James Ernest

2 players
10 - 15 min

About The Fractured Flat, from BoardGameGeek:

The world has shattered! Our two-dimensional universe has splintered into dozens of shards, and heroes like us need to knit it back together! As dimension-hopping wizards in a flat world, you will struggle to reunite your mutiverse and score some points along the way, in The Fratured Flat. The Fractured Flat is a simple area-control board game, in very early development at Crab Fragment Labs. You will need 16 small tokens for each player, and the Fractured Flat game board. Players take turns placing or moving their tokens on the board. You score points by occupying regions with dots (“cities”), and you also score points if neighboring regions are owned by your opponent. Each game takes 10 to 15 minutes. -description from the publisher

Designer

James Ernest

Publisher

Crab Fragment Labs

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Area Majority / Influence
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The Fractured Flat

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