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The Jewel Board Handbook

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Everything published on this site stays free and stays up. The handbook is the version with the diagrams: aiming angles drawn rather than described, obstacle priority as a decision tree, and the turn-order material worked through properly instead of compressed into a web page.

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One PDF, legible on a phone and laid out to print on A4.
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Contents

Turn-order boards in depth

What to leave behind for the opponent, how to value an extra turn against a larger clear, and a page on managing ability meters when two are nearly full at once.

Aiming, drawn out

Bank shot angles as diagrams rather than prose, with the wall-point method for estimating a bounce and a page of worked shots on overhanging clusters.

Obstacle priority as a decision tree

One page you can follow move by move: what to hit first when a spreading obstacle, a blocker and a covered goal tile are all on the board at once.

Events, and which to ignore

A framework for judging an event before committing to it, with the arithmetic for deciding whether a progress bar is reachable at your normal pace.

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