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Games | Jokes | Trivia | Brainteasers This puzzle is based on the well known Game of Life algorithm invented by John Conway. You have control over one cell, the blue cell. Your aim is to keep the blue cell alive, and reach the red target. At each moment in time the blue cell is permitted to move one cell in any direction, or may stay where it is. Once a move (click) has been accepted, the blue cell will either die immediately, or life will progress one instant. Standard Game of Life rules apply. In this game you try to outwit your computer opponent. The objective of the game is to remove more of your pieces from the board than the computer. Your pieces are the blue squares and the computer's pieces are the red triangles. The green circles are neutral. Players move in turn by removing a single piece from the board. This piece must be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally to the piece previously removed by the opponent. The peg last taken by the computer will be marked with an X and you must remove a piece adjacent to this spot. Each blue square removed counts as one point for you and each red triangle as one for the computer regardless of which player removes it. Play continues until either all of one players pieces have been removed or no further moves are possible. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins. Nim is an ancient game. There are a number of variations and you can play it with bones, skulls, or anything else you happen to have lying around the house. To play, you pick up one, two, or three skulls at a turn (click on a skull to pick it). Press the "rest" button when you're done with your turn. The winner (in this variation) is the player that forces the other player to pick up the last skull. I.e., if you pick up the last skull, you lose. You play a piece by clicking the mouse on an unoccupied square. This puts one of your pieces into that square. The idea is to trap one or more opponents' pieces between two of your pieces. Those opponents' pieces then change color to become your pieces. When both you and your opponent cannot play another piece, or if every square on the board is filled, the game is over. You count up the number of black pieces and the number of white pieces and the winner is the one with the most pieces. (The computer counts for you automatically.) Pentalpha is more of a puzzle than a game. The rules are a bit arcane. The idea is to move the gold balls until they get to the intersections or the points of the stars (these points are marked by red dots). Sound easy? It's not quite that simple. Click on the link to find out more about how to play Pentalpha. Click this link to view links to other games sites on the internet. |
