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Lastly, establish an area off to the side that functions to hold completed tree-trios, known as the bank.
==Gameplay==
There are three ways to move pieces in the playing area – Stacking, Sliding, and Swapping.
'''Stacking:''' You can move pieces orthogonally to stack smaller pieces on top of the next size larger as long as both pieces are the same color. Stacked small-medium combos can be further stacked on top of a large piece of the same color, forming a tree-trio. As pieces get stacked, gaps will form on the board. You can jump over these gaps orthogonally, but you can't jump over other pieces.
Once stacked, pieces cannot be unstacked, however if a small-medium stack of any color is across/next to a medium-large stack of the same color, the small piece can be moved to the top of the medium-large combo to form a trio. The same is true for a medium-large stack across from/next to a single large piece – the medium piece can be moved to the other large piece of like color. Note this also means you may move small or small-medium combos off of completed trees still in play, provided you have the proper color and size piece available adjacently, but:
*You can never stack diagonally or jump other pieces
*You can never stack pieces of the same size
*You can never stack pieces of different color
*You can never stack a small directly on top of a large
*You can never ‘nest’ pieces by placing larger on top of smaller
'''Sliding:''' Strictly viewing the playing area as five columns, at any time, you may close any column gap by sliding the piece directly below the gap all the way forward until it is touching the pyramid above the gap (or touching the top edge of the board). All pieces that are consecutively ‘touching’ behind it must also move along behind it. Gaps can never be closed by moving pieces left, right, backwards or diagonally, and pieces further back in the same column that are separated by more gaps do not move at all unless you choose to slide them in a separate move. The ‘invisible’ first row is available at any time as an extra space to slide pieces into.
'''Swapping:''' Besides stacking and sliding, the only other type of movement is the swap, where you trade the piece(s) in any one occupied space with the piece(s) of any other occupied space in play. You do not start the game with any swaps, but can earn up to two by banking rainbow stashes, as described next.
==Banking==
If you are able to form a tree-trio, at any time you may remove it from the playing area and add it to the bank, though it’s not always wise to immediately do so. Once you have built up a complete rainbow stash (five tree-trios, one of every color) in the banking area, you earn one swap which you may use at any time. With three rainbow stashes in the game, there are a maximum of two attainable swaps, so use them wisely. Note that tree-trios never need to be banked until the player chooses to do so, and any pieces that have been banked cannot be returned to the playing field.
==Endgame==
If three rainbow stashes have been deposited into the bank, forming a perfect 3house set, you win! If at any time you cannot stack, slide or swap, the game is over.
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