Cherub Chessboard

a Gio shenanigan
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Board on box

Is it magic? Maybe a little!

Want one?

You can't! It's mine for me

Only I have them and I am going to keep making more until that's all there is

magnets

Board-only top-down

Contributors

Design, board engineering, prodution, etc by Gio

Piece models by Hadronus

Box engravings by Zara Nerd

Web inspiration from EGGRAMEN

Close-up green piece lineup

tiny banana for scale

Tiny banana for scale (plus engraved coordinates)

a worse strategy game than polytopia

Piece close-up

Details

  • 20 mm squares
  • 104 magnets
  • Silk PLA pieces (shiny)
  • PLA+ board and cells (matte)
  • ~14 mm pieces
  • 4 rooks, 4 knights, 4 bishops, 2 kings
  • 4 + 2 queens, 16 + 2 pawns
  • Felt-lined compartments
  • Magnetic lid
  • 64 individually-magnetic cells
  • Embedded magnets in each piece
  • The magnets are the right way around

hadronical!

Plain board and box, no pieces

Felted board

Felted storage box