Xquarto
Xquarto is a board game designed for the X windows
environment.
The game is a two-player game, although for the moment,it
is only possible to play against the computer. The board is
composed of 4x4 squares and 16 pieces. Each piece has four
properties: black or brown, horizontal or vertical, solid or hollow,
round or square. This makes up 16 possible combinations and there
is exactly one piece for each possibility.
Initially the board is empty. Now the two players try to place
out pieces in order to get a complete row,
column or diagonal with a common property (e.g. all black).
The player who completes the row is the winner.
The players do not choose what piece
to put but it is rather player 1 who gives a piece to player 2, who
then has to place this piece somewhere and choose a piece for
player 1 to put somewhere etc.
The rules are really very simple - believe me!
See also the game Xtic which is identical
to Xquarto except that the player who completes
a row, column or diagonal loses.
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The game appears at
Soft5000.
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mattiasj@umich.edu