Linkage
This game is played on a 7x7 board with the center square blacked out. There are 24 pieces, 6 of 4 different colors. Each piece is a domino covering exactly two cells of the board. Both players choose pieces from a shared pool.
There are two players in the game: the starting player is called 'More' and the other player is called 'Fewer'.
The goals of the game are opposite for both players. The 'Fewer' player wins a finished game if the number of distinct groups of cells of the same color is less than 12. Otherwise the 'More' player wins.
Number of players: 2
Game duration: 4 mn
Complexity: 1 / 5
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Rules summary
Components
- 7×7 board
- on the centre square.
- on the last played piece.
- 24 2×1 domino-shaped pieces:
6 6 6 6
Game play
- 2 players: More and Fewer.
- More starts.
- Each turn one piece is placed on the board, with the green counter on top.
- A piece may be placed anywhere it does not:
- overlap another piece,
- overlap the black counter, or
- touch an edge of a piece with the green counter.
- If a player does not have a legal move, they pass their turn and remove the green counter from the board.
Game end
- Once no more moves can be made, the number of color groups on the board is counted.
- A color group is any set of one or more pieces of the same color that are connected vertically or horizontally.
- The Fewer player wins if the number of distinct groups of cells of the same color is fewer than 12, otherwise the More player wins.
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