Thursday 22 September 2011

Basic Rules


Picture 1.1
  • Reversi - othello played by two players at a 8x8 board game with contains 64 squares.
  • The game begin with 2 black discs and 2 white discs as shown at picture 1.1.
  • The player with black discs always has the first move.
  • in each turn, the player puts the disc at the board adjacent the opponent's disc in an empty square that forms a straight line from the players' disc at the beginning and the end of  the line. The opponent's disc(s) is between those discs.


Picture 1.2








Picture 1.2 shown the 4 legal moves that a black player can make as described in yellow colour.


  • Every opponent's disc(s) in the line will be owned by the player. 
  • Every disc placed on the board can change from one color to another, but cannot be moved from one square to another, or removed from the board.
  • The player can owned more than one line as long as the criteria mentioned above are fulfilled.



Picture 1.3




Picture 1.3 : shows how white player's move to own black discs in 2 lines.




  • The player must take their turn and cannot pass, except when there's no legal moves left. 
  • The game ends when there's no more legal moves for both player to make, or when all the squares of the board are full.