How to Play

Well, you've come all this way. Cool looking game... if only I knew how to play, you say. Well, here you are. The rules of the game Othello adapted to FlipOut.

OBJECT
To outflank your opponent and flip your opponent's discs to your color, ending up with the majority of the discs on the board in your color. (To OUTFLANK means to place a disc so that you have a disc of your color at each end of an opponent's row of discs of his color.)

RULES
* Each player is assigned a color. Red Player goes first, followed by Yellow Player, and, if this is a three player game, followed by Blue Player.

* Each player takes turns, in order. A move consists of placing a piece such that it completes the outflanking of one or more opponent(s) pieces. Those outflanked, or captured, pieces are then flipped to the current player's color.

For example, supposed a part of the board looks like this during Red Player's turn:



Red Player takes the empty hex, flipping all captured pieces in this row. It then becomes:



* A player must ALWAYS outflank an opponent and flip at least one disc in order to move. If that player cannot move, he looses his turn and is skipped over.

* A disc may outflank any number of opposing discs in one or more rows. A row may be one disc or many discs in a straight line.

* A disc may outflank in any direction: up, down, up-left, up-right, down-left, down-right. An outflanking can occure in one or more direction all at the same time.

* Capturing pieces only occures as a direct result of the piece played. Pieces that are flipped do NOT in-turn flip other pieces.

* A player who no longer has any pieces on the board is eliminated. In a two player game, this signifies the other player as the winner. In a three player game, play continues with the two remaining players as if the eliminated player never existed.

* The game is over if all but one player was eliminated, or if there are no longer empty hexes on the board. The player with the most captured hexes is the winner.

Well, that's pretty much it. The Othello Rules has some strategy at the bottom of the page. It translates well to a hex board and for three players. In fact, the AI player uses some of the strategies mentioned, so it might be a good idea to glance them over after you've played the game a few times.

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