Take 6

A 6 Nimmt!-like card game: a TypeScript game engine plus web viewers, built for the boardgamers.space platform.

Quick start

pnpm install
pnpm --filter take6-viewer-3d dev

Then open the printed URL (default http://localhost:5203). You'll get a local game against five AI opponents — no server needed.

Useful query params while testing: ?players=3 changes the number of players (default 6), and ?points=2&handSize=2 shortens the game so you can reach the end screen quickly.

Repository layout

Package	Path	Status
take6-engine	engine/	Active — the game logic
take6-viewer-3d	viewer-3d/	Active — the 3D viewer
take6-viewer	viewer/	Archived — canvas (Hex Engine) viewer
@gaia-project/take6-viewer	viewer-svg/	Archived — Vue 2 SVG viewer

engine/ — take6-engine

The full game logic: setup, moves, AI moves, state serialization (stripSecret), state reconstruction, and scoring, plus a mocha/chai test suite. Published as an ES module (TypeScript 5, NodeNext).

It also exports wrapper.ts, the boardgamers.space contract (init / move / moveAI / logSlice / stripSecret / …).

viewer-3d/ — take6-viewer-3d

The current viewer. Built with three.js and bundled with Vite. See its README for details.

Archived viewers

viewer/ (Hex Engine canvas) and viewer-svg/ (Vue 2) are kept for reference but are no longer maintained. They predate this monorepo and their docs still reference the old standalone repositories and yarn tooling. Prefer viewer-3d/ for anything new.

Development

This repo uses pnpm workspaces.

pnpm install   # install all workspace dependencies
pnpm build     # build every package that defines a build script
pnpm test      # run the engine's test suite

Per-package scripts use pnpm's --filter:

pnpm --filter take6-engine test
pnpm --filter take6-viewer-3d check

License

MIT (see LICENSE).