Ataxx

Ataxx is an originally Japanese board game for two people and is regarded as an adaptation of Othello and Reversi.

History

Ataxx, also known as SlimeWars and Frog Cloning, is a 1990 arcade computer game, released by the U.S. Leland Corporation. It was conceived in 1988 by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley and called Infection. At first it was for the Amiga, Commodore 64 and Atari ST programmed. Although it never appeared as a board game, this proves to be still on a Reversibrett.

Regulate

The game is played on a square board with 7 × 7 fields. The player who is on the train can draw a tile either to an adjacent field or to a field in the double distance (orthogonal, diagonal or knight move ). Every empty field in a 5 × 5 square around the output field is a possible target field. In a train on an adjacent field multiplies the stone, that is, the output field remains Returns a duplicate of the stone. In another train, the output field is left empty. In both cases, all the opponent's pieces that are adjacent to the target field, assimilated, that is, they become their own stones. The game ends when the player on the train can not make a legal train more, what is the latest on a full board of the case. The winner is the player who has the most stones. If both have the same number of pieces on the board, the game is a draw.

Variant

With the same rules, but an altered board, the 1992 computer game Hexxagon arisen plays. It consists of a hexagonal game board with 61 fields. Early 1990 then started a free computer game version, which quickly spread via floppy disks, a violent Hexxagon boom. The old MS -DOS version will not run on modern computers, today Online versions are available. As a board game there are Hexxagon also not available for purchase.