wizwar6e/research/boards-verification.md

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.

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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)

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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.