Pieces

An Alethi guessing game tolerated by the Vorin church because it contains no randomization. One player — the *mink* — arranges ten facedown stone tiles in a pattern; the others try to match the arrangement face-down through rounds of paid peeks, forced reveals, and inference, with one face-up *seed* tile as a clue. Common in barracks common rooms, where it is played for spheres or, when funds run out, for *ends* — fake glass drops without gemstones. SA:OB:Ch 43