New Game: Turn-coats - Form a straight line of four adjacent pieces in your opponents color to win!

Turn-Coats

2 player | 25 min

Designed by Rey Alicea

Materials
A hexhex5 board
A supply of bi-colored stones

Definitions
Adjacent – meaning,  orthogonally or diagonally.

Object
Form a straight line of four adjacent pieces in your opponents color to win.

Setup
Set the empty board between the two players and place the bi-colored stones nearby so both players can reach them.

Play
The bi-colored stones are communal.

One player plays black the other player plays white.

Black starts, turns then alternate.

On a player first turn they will place one stone friendly side up onto an empty cell on the board.

Henceforth players on their turn must take one of the following actions, which consist of two steps.

1. Place a stone onto any empty cell friendly side up. Then move another friendly stone already on the board a queens move (without capturing or jumping over friendly or enemy stones) onto an empty cell and ending the move by flipping the stone to your opponents color or

2. Place a stone onto any empty cell friendly side up. Then using another friendly stone that is already on the board jump over two friendly adjacent stones and ending the jump on an empty cell directly after. Complete the turn by flipping the two friendly stones that where jumped over to your opponents color.

A player wins if he manages to form a straight line of four adjacent pieces in his opponents color or his opponent is unable to take his turn.