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Obsidian Hints
What are the rules of this game?
1 of 12: The playing piece represents Lilah (your character).
2 of 12: There's only one place you can start.
3 of 12: It's the same place you started.
4 of 12: Put it in the lower-left corner.
5 of 12: Now, you get to move.
6 of 12: You can move your piece to any adjacent square, but not diagonally.
7 of 12: You also get to move Bismuth's piece in this miniature game.
8 of 12: Bismuth can also move to an adjacent square.
9 of 12: But there's a catch -- he can't move to the empty square.
10 of 12: Nor can he move to where Lilah is.
11 of 12: Your goal is to trap Bismuth.
12 of 12: Try trapping him in a corner, with one blank square to one side and Lilah to the other.