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By: BlitzAceSamy, tau_xi and Perra

Edited By: TheAmericanIdiot

Coded By: Mr Penguin12

The Burthorpe Games Room is a place where you can hang out with your friends and enjoy four different Games. There's a Game for everyone, and even a Bar for you to buy Beer from! Be sure to come down with your friends and play a few Games!

How To Get There

You can choose to walk to the Games Room from nearby cities and towns, namely Seer's Village, Camelot, Catherby, Taverley and Falador. Out of these locations, you can only use magical Spells to teleport to Camelot and Falador. You can also choose to Charter a ship from ports like Port Phasmatys, Port Sarim and Brimhaven to Catherby, at a cost. You can also take the Gnome Glider from the Grand Tree to White Wolf Mountain, but you need to have completed The Grand Tree Quest in order to do so. Last but not least, if your Player Owned House (POH) is in Taverley, you can cast Teleport to House to get there quickly.

Of course, the easiest way is to directly teleport there, using a Games Necklace (To make one, check out the Crafting Guide. A newly crafted Games Necklace will give you eight free Teleports before it crumbles into dust. To use your Games Necklace, right-click it and select Rub, and you will see this screen:

Choose Burthorpe Games Room and you will be teleported to the place, no hassle.

The Games Room

The Burthorpe Games Room can be found under Burthorpe Castle, home to his Royal Highness, the Prince of Burthorpe, Heir to the Throne of Asgarnia! The Prince loves nothing more than a challenging game, so what would be better than constructing a place for adventurers like you and I to play said games right under his own Castle?

There are two levels to the Burthorpe Games Room. The Floor at the bottom is for beginners and intermediate players, while the top Floor is for more advanced players. To play at the bottom floor, there is no requirement, but on the other hand, to play on the top Floor, you need to have a Rank of 1500 at the game you are playing. More details about Ranking will be given later.

The first thing you will no doubt see is a Bar, and two Stairs. The Stairs to the south take you back to the ground Floor, while the stairs to the north take you to where the advanced players are. The Bar, formally known as The Toad and Chicken, is set up at the Games Room for players to enjoy the cold sweet taste of alcohol. Sam, the Barmaid, will not hesitate to sell you Beers for your enjoyment, as well as give you information about the Games Room. Thus, talking to her would be a great help. Beers that she sells include the Dwarven Stout, Wizard's Mind Bomb and Asgarnian Ale, each costing 2gp. To see the side effects of the Beers, check out the Beer and Tavern Guide. But who cares about the side effects? You're only here to enjoy your drinks and games!

There are four Games which you can currently play at the Burthorpe Games Room: Runesquares, Draughts, Runelink and Runeversi, although Jagex has promised additional games in the future. Each game has a separate Room solely dedicated to that particular game. While in that Room, you will see a player's ranking instead of their Combat Level. You can only challenge people to a Game if you're in that Game's Room. If you only want to play a particular Game, go to the Room dedicated to it and someone may come and challenge you, or you may choose to challenge one of the gamers there. There are only four accessible Rooms at the present time. The westernmost Room is for Runesquares, and the Room to the southwest is for Draughts. To the east, the easternmost Room is for Runeversi, and the southeastern Room is for Runelink Games. Rachael is also there to provide you alcohol so you do not have to walk all the way back to Sam to buy drinks!

On the second Level, the advanced players wage war. Like the lower floor, there are four Rooms for each of the four Games, Runesquares to the west, Draughts to the southwest, Runelink to the southeast and Runeversi in the southwest. However, you need to be of 1500 Ranking at the respective Game to enter the Room. There are also locked Rooms that may be used for future Games that Jagex implements for the Games Room. Each of the four Rooms are connected by a ladder to the other Room of the same Game.

The Games

Draughts, or Checkers in American English, is played on a board with eight rows and eight columns, with sixty-four squares altogether. Half of the squares are brown, while the other half are white. Each player starts with twelve Pieces at the bottom, in squares that are brown in colour. Pieces can only move diagonally to squares adjacent to the square it is on, and can only move upward towards your opponent's Pieces. When your Piece(s) reaches the top row, they will become red and can move in all four directions. When your Piece(s) is adjacent to your opponent's Piece in the direction your Piece can move, you are able to use your Piece to capture your opponent's Piece. To do so, move your Piece to a position so that your opponent's Piece is between your Piece's initial position and its later position. Your opponent's Piece will be captured and be out of the Game permanently. If the Piece you used to capture is still able to capture another of your opponent's Pieces, you are able to capture it in the same turn as well. Same goes for consequent Pieces. However, if your opponent has a Piece adjacent to your Piece and another behind so that the former is between the latter and your Piece, you are not able to capture it. Same goes for your opponent, he or she, too, is able to capture your Pieces. The game end when a player loses all of his or her Pieces or has his or her remaining Pieces trapped and unable to move.

Runelink is a game where you and your opponent constantly place Pieces and aim to have four or more of your Pieces connected in a row. You can choose which column to place your Pieces in, but all Pieces are placed in the lowest row possible, unless there is already a Piece in a column, whether it is yours or your opponent's. In this case, your Piece will be placed above that Piece. No two Pieces can occupy the same spot, regardless of which player the Pieces belong to. There are seven columns and six rows to place Pieces in. To win, you must try to form a straight line of four, but you must also block your opponent from forming his or her line of four. The line can be vertical, horizontal or diagonal, provided that it is straight. A player wins when he or she forms a straight line of four or more.

Okay, you know how many sides a square has? If you said four, then you're correct. The concept of Runesquares is relatively simple; all you have to do is take turns, drawing lines. You do not want to make a line so only 1 side remains to be drawn in, otherwise the opponent can get a square. The aim of the game is to have the most squares filled in with your rune (it is filled automatically filled in when you draw the fourth line of a square) when you can draw no more lines. Sounds easy, yeah? It's also pretty fun. When you win, of course. Runesquares seems easy at first, but once you start playing and lose a few games against some experienced players, you might start grasping a few tricks you may not have known.

The objective of the game Runeversi is at the end of the game to have more Pieces of your colour than your opponent. You start with two Pieces each at the center of the board. You can place your Pieces any where by clicking on a blank square which is in a direct line with and touching one or more of your opponent's Pieces, and one (or more) of your own beyond them. This causes your opponent's Pieces that are trapped between your Pieces, whether vertically, horizontally or diagonally, to be your Pieces. The game ends when the board is full of Pieces. The winner is the player with the most Pieces.

Challenging

If you feel ready to play, you may challenge a player. Right-click a player and select "Challenge" to do so. If you are in one of the four rooms designated to a particular Game, you must challenge your opponent in that Game. If not, you are able to challenge your opponent in any Games, where you can see the rankings in all four Games of both you and your opponent.

After you select a game, or you are in a room designated for a particular Game, you will see the options screen.

At the top-left hand corner, you are able to see which game you are playing. At the left, you are able to select your piece out of the available runes, namely Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Mind, Body, Nature, Chaos, Law, Cosmic, Blood and Soul. At the top-right hand corner, you are able to choose how long each player can take to move. At the bottom-right hand corner, you are able to select if this Game will be ranked or not. Ranked Games will change your ranking. If you win the Game, your ranking increases. If you lose the game, your ranking decreases. Simple as that. A Game that is not ranked will not change your ranking, regardless of your result.

Ranking

Every player starts with 1000 Ranking, and this number can be changed by winning or losing ranked Games. Your Ranking in one Game is different from your Ranking in another Game, so you have different Rankings for each of your Games. When your Ranking reaches 1500, you are able to play on the top floor for that particular Game.

Now you know everything you need to know about the Games Room. Have fun!

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