More specifically, a pleb chooses to make a deposit of any amount as well as their real bid. Although the deposit will be known to anyone who looks at the transaction — and the maximum bid possible is actually displayed to anyone who looks at an individual auction — the true value (the only value that really counts) will be hidden to any other pleb who chooses to participate in the auction. What this means is that it is possible for a pleb to win an auction for minuscule amounts (as low as 1 wei or 10^(-18) ETH) so long as no other pleb outbids them with their real bid. The ability of a pleb to hide their bids lends itself perfectly to clever strategies.

Speaking of strategies…

We mentioned before that the board expands, but we never mentioned how the board expands.

Throughout the game, any pleb may have the option to double the board’s size. The only limit to this expansion is the natural limit of Ethereum, meaning the final board will have dimensions of 2²⁵⁶-1 by 2²⁵⁶-1. These expansions are possible anytime after exactly 4 weeks have passed since the last expansion.

Instead of expanding from the center outwards, the board expands in a coil-like pattern clockwise; first doubling to the right making the board rectangular, then down returning it to a square, then left, then up… We believe that the expansion will lead to some interesting valuations of structures on the edges of the board.

The King and the Wayfarer have special privileges when it comes to expansions, and are able to initiate them much faster than the plebs. Instead of having to wait the full 4 weeks, the King has the choice of expanding after only 2 and the Wayfarer after 3.

If there is open space on the board, the plebs can make moves wherever and whenever they want; there are no turns.