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| Ataxx Ataxx (also known as Slime and Frog ) is a board game which first appeared in 1990 as an arcade video game. It was invented by Dave Crummack and Craig Galley in 1988 and was called Infection. Each player begins with two pieces, which are located on the four corners of a 7x7 board. During their turn players must first select the piece they wish to move, the source, and then select an empty square, the destination, that is either adjacent to, or having a distance of less than three, from the source. Diagonal distances are equivalent to orthogonal distances, i.e. it is legal move to a square whose relative position is two squares away both vertically and horizontally. If the destination is adjacent to the source, a new piece is created on the empty destination square. Otherwise the piece on the source moves to the destination. After the move, all of the opponent player's pieces adjacent to the destination square are converted to the color of the moving player. The game ends if one player cannot make a legal move. When it happens, the player with more pieces on the board wins the game. If both players have the same number of pieces, the game is a draw. Finished games at differentboards.com: 1 |
