Intersections

The tiles or pieces are placed on intersections of the Pai Sho Ban.
As you saw in the previous image, intersections’ names are a combination of numbers and letters. The name consist of the number of the column and a letter from its row, such as 10A, 12J, etc. (the same idea is used in other board games, so you might be familiar with the system).


Playable intersections
All intersections that fall completely inside the circle of the board are playable. Intersections that seem to fall directly on the edge of the circle or just outside it, are marked with star points if they are playable. Intersections can be red, white, yellow, neutral, or piebald:

• Red intersections: All intersections that fall completely inside either of the two red gardens.
• White intersections: All intersections that fall completely inside either of the two white gardens.
• Yellow intersections: All intersections that fall completely inside the outer yellow gardens. Yellow intersections are considered neutral, that means neither red nor white.
• Piebald intersections: All intersections that fall between two or more gardens. Piebald intersections share the color of all adjacent gardens, that means they have more than one color.

So what does this mean? Well it just says that intersections inside a red garden are “red”, while the ones inside a white garden are “white”. And those in between count as both. Not so difficult, is it?


And another thing about the Torii: You can see that they are colored red, but that’s just for show. they are considered neutral as well (same as the yellow area).

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