Traps

Traps are the currency of Trike.

• Play inside a trap to defuse it.
• Two traps is one, one is none.
• Curvy paths must be travelled one step at a time.
• In case of doubt, set a trap.
• Larger traps catch more fish.
• A bridge is two half traps.
• A triangle is four half traps.
• The more enemy pieces you touch now, the fewer you will touch later.
• Make the adversary defuse their own traps.
• Stay on the better half of the board.
• Avoid your own traps until it is time to use them.
• Curvy traps are better than straight traps.
• Don't try to defuse a trap from the wrong angle, or you risk improving it.
• Avoid creating enemy traps with your own moves.
• Force the opponent to make board-dividing moves.
• Trading a trap for influence is an acceptable exchange.
• Don't swap pie offers in the corner.
• Swap pie offers next to the corner.
• Both the last AND the second to last move count as points (not just the last move).
• Do not play in line of sight of where you want to go; the enemy will take you away from there.
• Buried stones are useless.
• There are partisan traps (majority exists before the final three moves) and parity traps (majority depends on the final three moves)