Old Game: Ballista - with updated rules.

The ballista was an ancient Greek and Roman missile weapon, which launched a large projectile at a distant target.

Introduction

Ballista is an area enclosure, area control abstract game for 2 players: Black and White. It is played on the spaces of a 10x10 board. The board is divided by two red intersecting lines creating four 5 x 5 quadrants. You will also need a set of reversi pieces. The game starts out with 2 black and 2 white reversi pieces placed on the four marked squares on the board.

Play

Players decide who goes first then play alternates.

On each turn players must take two actions:

1)Move one of your color reversi pieces “ballista” exactly like a queen in Chess, orthogonally or diagonally onto any empty space as long as the piece stays within the quadrant where the move initiated from.

2)Fire a “projectile” reversi piece in your color away in a straight line orthogonally or diagonally from the piece just moved, then placing the new reversi piece in your color onto any empty space within one of the other three remaining quadrants.

Players also have the option on their turn to capture an enemy piece. Captures in Ballista are custodian, i.e., an enemy piece is captured when sandwiched between two friendly pieces (orthogonal or diagonal). Captured enemy pieces are not removed from the board but flipped over to your color.

Note: A ballista or fired projectile reversi piece may not jump over a friend or enemy piece, also any friendly pieces that were projectiles may now become a ballista.

The game ends when a player has no valid move.

New Game: Molecula - A connection game

Molecula is a 2 player connection game.

The board consists of two staggered 9x9 diamond plate like grids with cells running along the outer perimeter numbered 1-2-3-1-2-3-1-2-3 etc.

Objective - One player tries to create a connected chain of his like color stones from North to South, while his opponent tries the same from East to West, whoever accomplishes this first-wins.

Play - Two players, Black and White, take turns placing two stones of their color onto empty cells and then moving a marker in sequence along the numbered track starting on any cell marked #1 following a clockwise direction.

Player 1 only on his first turn places 1 stone onto any empty cell, after this, players take turns placing 2 stones onto empty cells a distance apart equal to the number currently marked on the numbered track.

The player that first claims at least half of the cells adjacent to one of his previously placed stones gets to claim the remainder of the adjacent cells to that previously placed stone, his opponent may not play onto those cells.

Empty spaces, friendly or enemy stones may lie between the two stones placed on your turn.

Note: Only adjacent cells are considered connected, so two cells separated by a 4-pointed star are not considered connected.