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| game_status=PlaytestingComplete

| version_num=1.12

| release_year=20162020

|style="text-align:center"|{{PL|:6|black|3em}} {{PL|:ColorBlue|dodgerblue|3em}} <font size="6em">🂠</font>{{CD|:cardback|black|5em}}

* Zark City cards, Rage cards, Five Crowns cards, or another five-suited deck with 13 ranks

Freeze all three tumblers in each of the five firewall locks before the hack is detected. (Dispensing with the thematic language, the goal is to remove all 15 pyramids by making sets before you run out of cards to draw.)

To Pop is to draw cards into your hand from one of the face-down Code Stack decks. TheYou quantitystart ofeach turn with zero cards youin shouldhand. drawBegin iseach decidedturn by rolling both the color die and the six-sided die. The deckcolor die indicates which of the face-down Code Stack decks you shouldwill draw from, is decided byand the colorsix-sided die tells you how many to draw. IfSo thereif areyou notroll enougha {{PL|:ColorGreen|green|2em}} {{PL|:4}}, you will draw four cards infrom the green face-down Code Stack deck. thatWhen isthere indicatedare bynot theenough colorcards dieto draw, but there is at least one, just draw as many as are available. A wild {{PL|:ColorAtom|black|2em}} roll lets you draw from any color deck.

Once you have cards in hand, you will "Push" cards onto the Pick Stack columns. To Push is to lay down all the cards in your hand, one by one, onto the cascading card columns (the "Pick Stacks"). Begin by placing a card onto any Pick Stack column you wish. Then choose a direction (left or right) and place one card from your hand onto each column in the direction you chose. You can rearrange your hand any way you like before placing the cards onto the columns. When you hit the edge of the board, '''wrap around to the other side'''. Make sure to place the new card so that it cascades down from any previous cards: the values of all cards in the Pick Stack columns should remain visible. See example below.

The player rolls {{PL|:ColorRed|red|2em}} {{PL|:6|black|2em}} on her first turn. She Pops six codes (draws 6 cards) from the red Code Stack deck. For easy tracking in our diagram, let's say that, improbably, the cards she has drawn are {{PLCD|🂱:heartA|red|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🂲:heart2|red|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🂳:heart3|red|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🂴:heart4|red|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🂵:heart5|red|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🂶:heart6|red|12.5em}}, and let's say that she has chosen to place them in that order. She decides to place her first card on the green Pick Stack column and move left. The next cards go onto the yellow, red, purple, cyan and green (again) Pick Stack columns.

While you are laying down cards, it would be wise to try to arrange things so as to create sets within the columns. A set consists of three cards of a matching value ({{PLCD|🂩:spades9|purple|2em2.5em}} {{PLCD|🃉:diamond9|dodgerblue|2em2.5em}} {{PLCD|🂹:heart9|red|2em2.5em}}) or three cards that form an ascending or descending run ({{PLCD|🃅:diamonds5|dodgerblue|2em2.5em}} {{PLCD|🂦:spade6|purple|2em2.5em}} {{PLCD|🃗:club7|green|2em2.5em}}). Runs of cards can wrap around between the King, Ace and 2. Sets do not have to consist of matching suits.

|{{PLCD|🂥:spades5|purple|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂲:heart2|red|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃊:diamond10|dodgerblue|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃞:clubsk|green|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂢:spades2|purple|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃛:clubsj|green|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃅:diamond5|dodgerblue|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃓:clubs3|green|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃉:clubs9|dodgerbluegreen|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃁:diamondA|dodgerblue|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃑:spadesA|greenpurple|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂹:heart9|red|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂵:heart5|red|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃄:diamond4|dodgerblue|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂨:spades8|purple|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂲:heart2|red|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🂾:spadek|redpurple|2.5em3em}}

|{{PLCD|🃊:diamond10|dodgerblue|2.5em3em}}

Whenever a Pick Stack column has three adjacent cards forming a set, you must Lock In these cards. Do this by removing the three cards from the column and discarding them to the Lock Stack (the common discard pile off to the side). Then freeze one tumbler from that column by placing a standing pyramid on its side. Congratulations; you're that much closer to breaking through the firewall. The set cards do not have to be the most recently-placed ones to be Locked In. If sets form due to cards' being pulled from the center of the columns, those sets must also be Locked In. (See diagram of this below.) You shouldmay performnotice Locksets Insthat righthave awayformed ifon previous turns that you noticedidn't setssee thatat happenedthe ontime: previousLock turnsthese In right away, even if you're doing another action. The only time you should wait to Lock In cards is if you are in the middle of Pushing (placing cards down from your hand). Once your hand is empty, your cards have been distributed, and all the sets on the table have been Locked In, the turn is over. Roll both dice to begin a new turn.

To Jump is to move a single card from one column to another. The Jump action becomes available to you whenever the color-die tells you to draw from a Code Stack that is empty. To perform a Jump, keeplook in mindat the color and quantity you rolled. Scan the columns for cards that match the color you rolled. Now look at the most recently placed card of any of the Pick Stack columns, and count up the column, stopping at or before the number you rolled. If you reach a card that matchesof the right color you rolled, you maycan take it into your hand and place it on any Pick Stack column, including the one from which the card was just removed. After placing the card, Lock In any sets if possible (by discarding themeach set and then knocking over a pyramid in the column itthat cameset fromwas formed in). Upon rolling a {{PL|:ColorAtom|black|2em}} wild, you are allowed to choose the color of a depleted face-down Code Stack deck in order to do a Jump move. You are also allowed to choose a depleted color and then refrain from taking the Jump action, thereby effectively passing.

The player rolls {{PL|:ColorBlue|dodgerblue|1.5em}} {{PL|:4|black|1.5em}}. There are no cards left in the face-down cyan Code Stack deck, so the player decides to Jump. There are 7 cards in the red Pick Stack column. Counting from the most recently placed card ({{PLCD|🃕:clubs5|green|12.5em}}), the third and fourth {{PLCD|🃁:diamondsA|dodgerblue|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🃉:diamonds9|dodgerblue|12.5em}} cards are cyan. The player chooses to take the third card from stack and place it on the yellow Pick Stack column. Removing the Ace from the red stack causes the {{PLCD|🃘:clubs8|green|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🃉:diamonds9|dodgerblue|12.5em}} {{PLCD|🂺:heart10|red|12.5em}} to make contact, forming a run in the middle of the stack. The player Locks In these three cards.

Note that the {{PLCD|🃉:diamond9|dodgerblue|12.5em}}, {{PLCD|🃆:diamond6|dodgerblue|12.5em}}, and {{PLCD|🃋:diamondj|dodgerblue|12.5em}} would also have been valid Jumps, but the {{PLCD|🃊:diamond10|dodgerblue|12.5em}} was inaccessible because it was six steps up in its column, greater than the {{PL|:4|black|1.5em}} that was rolled.

*Popping cards and Locking In are mandatory actions when possible. Jumping is optional.

*If therethe Code Stack pile that the player must draw from is completely empty, she may perform a Jump move or pass.