Black & White

Black & White

Designer: Dan Spil
Type: Abstract
Status: Free
BGG entry: http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/33264
Available from: http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~jpn/gv/blackwhite.htm

Equipment:

• a 5x5 board
• About 10 stones in 2 different colors, or 10 reversable pieces (like in Reversi/Othello)

Each player starts with 5 pieces of his color (or 5 Revesri/Othello pieces). The game begins with each player droping one of his stones per turn on an empty cell. After that, on each turn, each player must do one of the following actions: 1) Use a friendly stone to jump (orthogonally or diagonally) over an enemy stone landing on the immediate empty cell and flipping the color of the jumped stone (black turns white, and vice versa). Jumps are multiple (the player may choose between choices) and mandatory -- or 2) Move a friendly stone to an (orthogonal or diagonal) adjacent empty cell.

The player that either makes an (orthogonal or diagonal) 5 in-a-row or stalemates his opponent wins.

There is a ZRF file available to play Black & White with Zillions-of-Games, available here: ftp://ftp.zillionsofgames.com/games/BlackWhite.zip