# Wiz-War 6e Board Verification — Owner's Photos vs. boards-6e.md Verification date: 2026-08-15. Source photos: `research/scans/IMG_4674.jpeg` – `IMG_4679.jpeg` (owner's straight-down iPhone photos of the six physical sector boards, 3024x4032). Reference: the six reconstructed layouts A–F in `research/boards-6e.md`. **Method.** Each photo was EXIF-corrected, its board corners auto-detected (bright-region extraction), and perspective-rectified to a 2200x2200 square. Every cell boundary was then read visually from four overlapping 3x3-cell quadrant crops (~410 px per cell), with dedicated close-ups for all door planks and all four perimeter edges. The resulting full boundary map for each board was matched programmatically against layouts A–F under all 8 rotations/reflections (walls + doors + treasure positions all included in the match). Perimeter openings were additionally verified by dark-pixel profiling of the border band (openings are printed as black jagged gaps in the white-brick frame). ## Verdict summary **Every photo matched exactly one canonical layout with ZERO differences — walls, doors, and treasure positions all agree.** All matches are pure rotations (no reflections), as expected for printed boards. `boards-6e.md` section 3 is confirmed in full, including the door positions on layouts D and F that were flagged UNCERTAIN. ### Mapping table "Rotation" = how the canonical diagram in `boards-6e.md` must be rotated (clockwise) to match the photo as shot. | Photo | Layout | Rotation (canonical → photo) | Verdict | |---|---|---|---| | IMG_4674.jpeg | **E** | 90° CW | CONFIRMED EXACT | | IMG_4675.jpeg | **F** | none (photo is in canonical orientation) | CONFIRMED EXACT | | IMG_4676.jpeg | **C** | 90° CW | CONFIRMED EXACT | | IMG_4677.jpeg | **B** | 90° CW | CONFIRMED EXACT | | IMG_4678.jpeg | **D** | 270° CW (90° CCW) | CONFIRMED EXACT | | IMG_4679.jpeg | **A** | 270° CW (90° CCW) | CONFIRMED EXACT | Each layout appears exactly once — the owner's set is the complete six-layout collection (base box + Expansion Set #1). ### The formerly-UNCERTAIN doors (D and F) — now CONFIRMED - **Layout D, door (2,2)-(3,2):** on IMG_4678 (D rotated 90° CCW) this appears as a vertical plank with two hinge roundels spanning the (4,2)|(4,3) boundary, capped by brick blocks above and below. Unambiguous in close-up. Canonical position (2,2)-(3,2) is **correct**. - **Layout F, doors (1,3)-(2,3) and (5,3)-(5,4):** IMG_4675 shows F in canonical orientation. Both doors are clearly printed: a horizontal plank with hinges in the row-1/row-2 wall at column 3, and a vertical plank with hinges in the column-3/column-4 wall at row 5. Both canonical positions are **correct**. No boards required correction, so there are no corrected coordinate lists or ASCII maps — the canonical lists below stand as printed in `boards-6e.md`. ### As-photographed boundary maps (evidence record) Full boundary sets as read from each photo, in the photo's own orientation (V = (r,c)|(r,c+1), H = (r,c)|(r+1,c); row 1 = top of photo). These are what matched the rotated canonical layouts with zero diffs. - **IMG_4674 (E rot 90° CW):** V: (1,3),(2,1),(2,4),(3,1),(3,3),(4,4),(5,1) · H: (1,2),(2,3),(2,4),(3,2),(4,3),(4,4) · Door: H (1,3)-(2,3) · T: (2,4),(4,2) - **IMG_4675 (F, canonical):** identical to Layout F lists below. - **IMG_4676 (C rot 90° CW):** V: (2,1),(2,2),(2,3),(3,1),(3,2),(3,4),(4,4) · H: (1,2),(1,5),(2,4),(3,1),(3,3),(4,2),(4,3),(4,4) · Door: V (1,3)-(1,4) · T: (2,4),(4,2) - **IMG_4677 (B rot 90° CW):** V: (2,3),(2,4),(4,1),(4,4),(5,2) · H: (1,2),(1,3),(2,1),(2,2),(2,4),(3,2),(3,3),(3,4),(4,3) · Door: V (5,4)-(5,5) · T: (2,4),(4,2) - **IMG_4678 (D rot 90° CCW):** V: (1,2),(1,3),(2,1),(2,2),(2,3),(2,4),(3,1),(3,2),(3,3),(3,4),(4,4) · H: (3,1),(4,2),(4,3),(4,4) · Door: V (4,2)-(4,3) · T: (2,4),(4,2) - **IMG_4679 (A rot 90° CCW):** V: (1,2),(2,1),(2,2),(2,4),(3,1),(3,4),(4,1),(4,4),(5,3) · H: (1,4),(2,3),(3,2),(3,3),(4,2) · Doors: V (1,3)-(1,4), V (4,3)-(4,4) · T: (2,4),(4,2) ### Perimeter openings All 24 sides (6 boards x 4 edges) verified: the outer wall is a white-brick band with **exactly one one-space opening, always at the middle (third) space of the edge**, printed as a black jagged gap in the band. Confirmed both visually and by dark-pixel profiling (the middle position was the profiling maximum on 23/24 edges; the 24th — IMG_4678's east edge — was confirmed by close-up crop). No off-center or extra openings anywhere. --- ## Final authoritative layouts (source of truth for boards.json) Canonical orientation identical to `boards-6e.md` section 3. All six are now verified against the physical boards; confidence: CONFIRMED (physical-photo verified). Notation: 5x5 grid, (row, column), row 1 = top, column 1 = left. `H` at (3,3) = home star on every board. `T` = treasure space (two per board, diagonally adjacent to home). Walls V listed as (r,c)|(r,c+1); walls H as (r,c)|(r+1,c). Doors listed with the pair of cells they join. Perimeter (identical on all six boards): solid outer wall with one opening centered on each edge — north/south openings adjacent to cell (1,3)/(5,3), west/east openings adjacent to cell (3,1)/(3,5). ### Layout A (photo IMG_4679, rotated 90° CCW on the table) ``` +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | + +-----+-----+-----+ + | | T | | + + + +-----+-----+ | H | +-----+==D==+ + +==D==+ | T | | + +-----+-----+-----+ + | | +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ ``` - Walls V: (2,1)|(2,2), (2,2)|(2,3), (3,2)|(3,3), (3,3)|(3,4), (4,4)|(4,5) - Walls H: (1,2)|(2,2), (1,3)|(2,3), (1,4)|(2,4), (2,4)|(3,4), (2,5)|(3,5), (3,1)|(4,1), (4,2)|(5,2), (4,3)|(5,3), (4,4)|(5,4) - Doors: (3,2)-(4,2), (3,5)-(4,5) - Treasure: (2,2), (4,4) · Home: (3,3) ### Layout B (photo IMG_4677, rotated 90° CW on the table) ``` +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | + +-----+ +-----+==D==+ | T | | | + +-----+ + + + | H | | + + + + +-----+ | | | | T | + + + +-----+ + | | | +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ ``` - Walls V: (2,2)|(2,3), (2,3)|(2,4), (3,1)|(3,2), (3,3)|(3,4), (3,4)|(3,5), (4,1)|(4,2), (4,2)|(4,3), (4,3)|(4,4), (5,2)|(5,3) - Walls H: (1,2)|(2,2), (1,4)|(2,4), (2,2)|(3,2), (3,5)|(4,5), (4,4)|(5,4) - Doors: (1,5)-(2,5) - Treasure: (2,2), (4,4) · Home: (3,3) ### Layout C (photo IMG_4676, rotated 90° CW on the table) ``` +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | | + + +-----+-----+ + | T | | | +==D==+-----+ + + + H | | + +-----+-----+ + + | | T | | + +-----+-----+ + + | | | +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ ``` - Walls V: (1,1)|(1,2), (2,2)|(2,3), (2,4)|(2,5), (3,3)|(3,4), (3,4)|(3,5), (4,1)|(4,2), (4,4)|(4,5), (5,3)|(5,4) - Walls H: (1,3)|(2,3), (1,4)|(2,4), (2,2)|(3,2), (3,2)|(4,2), (3,3)|(4,3), (4,2)|(5,2), (4,3)|(5,3) - Doors: (2,1)-(3,1) - Treasure: (2,2), (4,4) · Home: (3,3) ### Layout D (photo IMG_4678, rotated 90° CCW on the table) ``` +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | | + + +-----+-----+ + | | T | + +==D==+-----+-----+-----+ | H + + +-----+-----+-----+ | | T | + +-----+-----+-----+ + | | +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ ``` - Walls V: (1,2)|(1,3), (2,1)|(2,2), (3,1)|(3,2), (4,1)|(4,2) - Walls H: (1,3)|(2,3), (1,4)|(2,4), (2,3)|(3,3), (2,4)|(3,4), (2,5)|(3,5), (3,3)|(4,3), (3,4)|(4,4), (3,5)|(4,5), (4,2)|(5,2), (4,3)|(5,3), (4,4)|(5,4) - Doors: (2,2)-(3,2) **[UNCERTAIN flag resolved: CONFIRMED from photo]** - Treasure: (2,2), (4,4) · Home: (3,3) ### Layout E (photo IMG_4674, rotated 90° CW on the table) ``` +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | + +-----+ +-----+ + | T | | | +-----+ +-----+ + + D | H | + + + + + + | | | T | + +-----+-----+ +-----+ | | +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ ``` - Walls V: (2,2)|(2,3), (2,4)|(2,5), (3,2)|(3,3), (3,4)|(3,5), (4,1)|(4,2), (4,3)|(4,4) - Walls H: (1,2)|(2,2), (1,4)|(2,4), (2,1)|(3,1), (2,3)|(3,3), (4,2)|(5,2), (4,3)|(5,3), (4,5)|(5,5) - Doors: (3,1)-(3,2) (door in a vertical wall) - Treasure: (2,2), (4,4) · Home: (3,3) ### Layout F (photo IMG_4675, photographed in canonical orientation) ``` +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ | | + +-----+==D==+-----+ + | T | | +-----+ + + +-----+ | H | +-----+-----+ + +-----+ | | T | | + +-----+-----+ + + | D | +-----+-----+ +-----+-----+ ``` - Walls V: (2,2)|(2,3), (3,2)|(3,3), (3,3)|(3,4), (4,3)|(4,4), (4,4)|(4,5) - Walls H: (1,2)|(2,2), (1,4)|(2,4), (2,1)|(3,1), (2,5)|(3,5), (3,1)|(4,1), (3,2)|(4,2), (3,5)|(4,5), (4,2)|(5,2), (4,3)|(5,3) - Doors: (1,3)-(2,3), (5,3)-(5,4) **[UNCERTAIN flag resolved: both CONFIRMED from photo]** - Treasure: (2,2), (4,4) · Home: (3,3) --- ## Observations from the physical boards 1. **No centering dots.** `boards-6e.md` section 2 claims "each space has a small centering dot (decorative)". The photos show **no centering dots** — floor spaces carry only irregular hatch/tick marks and occasional doodles. That claim should be dropped (it likely came from the jeloba redraws, not the Chessex printing). 2. **Perimeter opening rendering:** openings are not merely absent wall — they are drawn as a black jagged "void" interrupting the white-brick border band. Visually prominent. 3. **Door rendering:** every door is a wood-grain plank filling the full one-cell wall gap, with a pair of round hinge/knob roundels at one end and brick end-caps. 8 doors total across the six boards (A:2, B:1, C:1, D:1, E:1, F:2) — matches the count in boards-6e.md. 4. **Boards are unlabeled** — no printed titles, numbers, or edition marks visible on the faces, so base-box vs. Expansion-Set-#1 membership can't be read off the boards. However, **art style groups the set**: IMG_4674 (E) and IMG_4675 (F) share one drawing hand (6-pointed home star with concentric-diamond core, dense paired-tick hatching); IMG_4677/4678/4679 (B, D, A) share another (8-pointed star with chevron core); IMG_4676 (C) differs most (horizontal-dash floor hatching, star with a spiral core). The E+F pairing by style is consistent with — but not proof of — E and F being the two Expansion Set #1 boards. 5. **Decorative doodles** (no game effect, differ per board): skulls, mice/rats, bones, daggers/broken swords, grass tufts, spider webs in some corners, a broken pot (A), a jug (D), a barrel/pillbug sketch (B). These sit inside floor spaces and never on boundaries. 6. **Treasure glyphs** are octagonal spiral rosettes, two per board, always diagonally adjacent to the home star on the same diagonal — confirmed on all six (photos of rotated boards show them at (2,4)/(4,2), which is the same diagonal rotated). 7. **All six matches were pure rotations** — no mirror match was needed, confirming the photo set and the reconstruction describe the same physical printings. 8. Not verifiable from these photos: board backs (single-sidedness), physical dimensions, rulebook wording — items 2–5 in boards-6e.md section 6 remain open.