Valeria
Lasca (Laska) Remix
Emanuel Lasker's stacking draughts (1911), rebuilt as a high-craft template. It is **net-new** and, although it lives on a checkered board, its core mechanic makes it a genuinely different game from `checkers` (and from `konane`, `fanorona`, etc.): captures don't remove pieces — they build **towers of prisoners**, and whoever sits on top commands the whole stack.
Konane Remix
**Hawaiian checkers** — one of the oldest board games in the world, you (black) versus a minimax CPU (white). The board starts packed like a checkerboard; two adjacent centre stones are lifted to open play. On your turn, **jump** one of your stones orthogonally over an adjacent enemy stone into the empty space beyond, capturing it — and you may keep jumping in the **same straight line** for a multi-capture combo. There is no other way to move. The first player who cannot move **loses**, so the game is a battle to strand your opponent.
Knucklebones Remix
The viral dice-grid duel (popularised by *Cult of the Lamb*), you versus a greedy CPU. You each own a **3×3 grid of three columns**. On your turn you roll a die and drop it into one of your columns. The hook: matching dice in the **same column multiply** — two 4s score 4×2×2 = 16, three score 4×3×3 = 36 — and dropping a value **destroys every matching die in the opponent's same column**. When either grid fills, the game ends and the higher total wins. Equal parts greed, stacking, and sabotage.