Robot SMASH Battle
Robot SMASH Battle (SMASH for short) is a two person battle game played over Twitter. Think Rock, Paper, Scissors, except with robots and text and smashing.
You are the owner of a SMASH battle robot. Challenge your friends and destroy their robots! In order to play, both you and your opponent (victim?) must follow @play140smash on Twitter.
How Do I Play?
SMASH is played by sending Direct Messages to @play140smash. We score your and your opponent's plays, and then send an @message back to you with the results. Your robot starts with 32 hit points. As you battle, you damage each other and your hit points decrease. The last robot standing (with more than zero points), wins. If you both go to zero on the same move, it's a draw.
Someone has to throw down the gauntlet, right? Well, with SMASH, this is done with the challenge. The challenge is a direct message sent to @play140smash that tells us who you want to battle.
It looks like this:
or if you send your challenge directly from main twitter.com page:
When you challenge someone to a game of SMASH, we then send your opponent an invitation to play.
They accept the invitation by sending a direct message to @play140smash with the move they want to make. Such as:
Once both players have sent in their commands, we will send an at-tweet telling both the result.
The battle ends when one robot is destroyed (reduced 0 hit points). If both are destroyed on the same turn, the battle ends in a draw.
What Are The Rules?
You and your opponent each begin the game with a robot that has 32 hit points. The game takes place over a series of turns, and each turn you issue a command to your robot to try and SMASH the other one into bits. Each command does damage and may counter your opponent's command (meaning they do no damage to your robot at all!).
| Command | Counters opponent's | Damage |
| POWER | — | 11 |
| JAB | POWER and SLAM | 5 |
| TRIP | JAB | 7 |
| SLAM | TRIP | 9 |
Notes
Duplicate status errors. You can't submit the same status update to twitter twice in a row. If you send in one move as "slam" and then your next move is "slam", Twitter will reject the direct message. Some clients give a nice warning. Others just silently fail. In any case, you can just put several spaces or characters after your answer and it'll go through.