Kubb: Throwing Wood
A game of Kubb for the Playdate, thrown with the crank. Jamie began it in November 2026, and it is not published yet.
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Kubb: Throwing Wood is a game of Kubb for the Playdate, the small yellow handheld with a crank on its side. The crank is the throwing arm. Turned back past the bottom of its turn it winds up, and flicked forward it throws, with the speed of the flick and the length of the backswing setting the power. The d-pad walks the thrower along the line, B and the crank turn them left and right, and A and the crank set the loft.
The pitch is five meters by eight, drawn in the Playdate’s black and white from behind the thrower. Batons, kubbs, the king and the six corner and midline stakes are solid bodies, so a baton tumbles, skids, glances off a stake, and knocks a kubb into its neighbour. A baton thrown side-on is a helicopter, and it does not count.
A match is two teams passing one Playdate, played to the U.S. Championship rules with a 2-4-6 opening: kubbs tossed back in, field kubbs before base kubbs, the advantage line, and the king last. Each finished match is saved as a game file in Planet Kubb Notation.
Jamie began it on November 13, 2026. Claude writes the code, in Lua, and Jamie plays each build on his Playdate and says what is wrong with it. It is not published yet.
The record #
Artifacts #
Files from the project itself, kept as they were.
The throw #
The wind-up #
The crank turned back past the bottom of its turn. The dial shows the arm, the dark arc is the backswing, and the five kubbs on the far baseline wait.
A baton in flight #
Thrown at full power with 35 degrees of loft. The camera follows the baton down the pitch, and the small map in the corner shows the whole of it.
The hit #
A baton coming off a base kubb, which has started to tip. The game slows down around a hit so it can be watched.
Three kubbs and one baton #
A low baton into three field kubbs standing together. Every piece is a solid body, so what falls is worked out, not chosen.
A match #
The hand-off #
The card between turns. Team A opens with two batons, Team B answers with four, and every turn after that has six.
Team B’s turn #
The pitch turned around for the other team, with one kubb to toss back before the batons. Whoever is throwing always throws up the screen.
Mid-turn #
Team A’s second baton of six. The field kubb the first baton knocked down, and that baton, stay where they fell until the turn is over.
The first match #
The game file from the first match played on a Playdate, on November 13, 2026, in Planet Kubb Notation. Six turns in seven minutes, and it ended when Team B resigned.
Connections #
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Kubb: Throwing Wood writes its games in Planet Kubb Score
Every finished match is saved as a game file in Planet Kubb Notation, the system Jamie began on Planet Kubb in 2012. Source