Diamond is built from short rows that widen to the middle and taper off again, with smaller diamonds stacked on top. It has 136 tiles over four layers.
Short rows mean lots of open ends, so you have more free tiles than on nearly any other board. It's the most forgiving of the larger layouts, and a good next step once you've beaten Little Temple and Garden.
136 tiles over 4 layers, 12 tiles wide and 10 rows high. These percentages show how often a bot choosing pairs at random won, across 2,000 games at each level:
A thinking player will do far better than a random one. See how we measured this.
144 tiles · 4 layers
A stepped pyramid, and the main board on this site.
144 tiles · 5 layers
The traditional shape: a domed shell, side wings and one tile on the peak.
136 tiles · 4 layers
Four corner towers, four tiles high, around a walled courtyard.
144 tiles · 4 layers
Two big towers joined by a narrow two-row span.
144 tiles · 3 layers
Tapered wings either side of a tall, narrow body.
144 tiles · 3 layers
Four arms meeting at a raised center block.
72 tiles · 3 layers
Half the tiles of a full board. Quick games with larger tiles on phones.
96 tiles · 3 layers
A flat bed with three raised mounds. A shorter game at 96 tiles.
144 tiles · 3 layers
Three broad steps climbing to one side. Few free tiles at the start.
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Diamond. At Medium, a random player wins more often on it than on any other board with more than 100 tiles.
Its rows are short and each row's width changes from one to the next, which leaves many tile ends open from the start.