Flip Bots

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How to play Flip Bots

Flip Bots is played by the classic Reversi rules on an 8 by 8 board. Each side has one disc colour. The game starts with two discs of each colour in the middle.

Your move

• Place a disc so that one or more of the other side’s discs sit in a straight line between your new disc and another of yours: across, up and down, or on a diagonal.
• Every disc trapped that way flips to your colour. One move can flip lines in several directions at once.
• A move must flip at least one disc. The copper dots show where you can play.
• If you have no move, you pass and the other side goes again.

Winning

The game ends when neither side can move, usually when the board is full. Whoever has more discs wins.

Tips

Corners can never be flipped. The squares right next to an empty corner are risky because they can hand the corner over. Early on, having more moves to choose from matters more than having more discs.

Robots and skill

Skill runs from 1 to 100. It sets how far ahead the robot looks, how big its mistakes are, and how early it plays the end of the game perfectly. At 100 it makes no deliberate mistakes and solves the last 18 squares exactly.

Controls

Tap a square. Keyboard: arrow keys to move, Enter or Space to place, P to pause. Game controller: D-pad to move, A to place, B to go back. The ↶ button takes back your last move.

Settings

Leave the board?

Your game is saved. Tap Continue on the menu to pick it up.