"like Go Bang, and is played with 64 pieces."" In 1893, the German games publisher Ravensburger started producing the game as one of its first titles. Two 18th-century continental European books dealing with a game that may or may not be Reversi are mentioned on page fourteen of the Spring 1989 ""Othello Quarterly"", and there has been speculation, so far without documentation, that the game has older origins. The modern version of the game — the most regularly used rule-set, and the one used in international tournaments — is marketed and recognized as Othello. It was patented in Japan in"
"Reversi Reversi is a strategy board game for two players, played on an 8×8 uncheckered board. There are sixty-four identical game pieces called ""disks"" (often spelled ""discs""), which are light on one side and dark on the other. Players take turns placing disks on the board with their assigned color facing up. During a play, any disks of the opponent's color that are in a straight line and bounded by the disk just placed and another disk of the current player's color are turned over to the current player's color. The object of the game is to have the majority"
"Reversis Reversis, or more rarely, ""Réversi"", is a very old trick-taking card game of the Hearts group whose origin is supposed to be Italian, transformed into Spain and then in France. It is considered one of the two probable ancestor of Hearts and Black Maria, the other being Conquimbert, or Losing Lodam. It was very popular with the French aristocracy in the 17th and 18th centuries, and much played elsewhere, except in Britain. The game involved vast quantities of counters and a complex system of pools and side-payments. Its name may have possibly come from the reverse order and construction"
"of the game itself, or even from an exceptional slam bid which, like “shooting the moon” in the game of Hearts, reverses the whole normal practice of the game. The game of Reversis was first mentioned in France in 1601, under the name Reversin, played with a 52-card pack. Jean-Baptiste Bullet suggested it was invented in the Court of Francis I. Reversis is a subtle game which knew important additions, in particular towards the end of the 18th century in the form of options. At the 19th century the game, the increasingly popular game of Reversis saw its rules becoming"
"them, the Jack of Hearts, was called the quinola, just like at Primero. The strange incongruity of this inverted order of things made the Spaniards, when this game became known to them, give it the appropriate denomination of ""La Gana pierde"", that is, the winner loses. The game of Reversis is a trick-avoidance game where each player attempts to avoid taking tricks with certain cards in them (similar to Hearts). It is played by four players with a 52-card pack lacking 10s, making 48 cards in total, ranking A K Q J 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2,"
"Rebound (video game) Rebound is a two-player sports arcade game developed by Atari, Inc. and released in February 1974. In the game, two players each control paddles on either side of a volleyball net, with a ball dropped from the top of the screen. The players bounce the ball back and forth across the net with the goal of scoring points by having the ball reach the bottom or side of the other player's half of the screen, with the trajectory of the ball dependent on where it strikes the paddle. The winner is the first player to reach eleven"
"game that made the paddle jump up and attempt to bounce the ball downwards instead of up. In addition to the base game, Atari sold a conversion kit to convert any Atari two-player ""Pong"" variant into ""Rebound"", and in 1977 ""Rebound"" was included in ""Video Olympics"" for the Atari 2600, a collection of ""Pong"" variants. ""Rebound"" is a two-player volleyball sports game in which the players, each controlling a paddle representing a person on either side of a volleyball net, attempt to score points. The horizontal paddles are moved by the players left and right on their side of the"
"cover up the original name on the cabinets with ""Rebound"". In 1977, ""Rebound"" was included as one of the games in ""Video Olympics"" for the Atari 2600 home video game console, a collection of ""Pong"" variants, as ""Volleyball"". Rebound (video game) Rebound is a two-player sports arcade game developed by Atari, Inc. and released in February 1974. In the game, two players each control paddles on either side of a volleyball net, with a ball dropped from the top of the screen. The players bounce the ball back and forth across the net with the goal of scoring points by"
"Kings Reverse Kings Reverse is a card game for 2 or more players that is played in Iowa, in the United States. For more than 5 players, 1 additional pack of cards may be used. Whoever gets rid of his/her cards first wins the game. Kings Reverse is very similar to the games Uno and Flaps, both belonging to the larger Crazy Eights or shedding family of card games. However Kings Reverse is played with regular packs of playing cards. Rules for Kings Reverse (without the jokers) have existed at least since the mid-1970s, and could have been an adaption"
"reverse side of some pieces are two other characters, often in a different color (commonly red instead of black); this reverse side is turned up to indicate that the piece has been promoted during play. The pieces of the two sides do not differ in color, but instead each piece is shaped like a wedge, and faces forward, toward the opposing side. This shows who controls the piece during play. Listed here are the pieces of the game with their Japanese representation. Silver generals and gold generals are commonly referred to simply as ""silvers"" and ""golds"", parallel to their abbreviations"
"to move first, so faster and crueler players would purposely fool the newbies for fun. An alternate version was available where the opposite answer must be selected, called ""XO"". In this version, the board was halloween themed and evil laughter could be heard at the start of the game. ""Virus"" was a game very similar to ""Reversi"" or ""Ataxx"" where four players, two on each team would face off, taking turns with their team mate to outwit the other team. Players could chat privately with their team mate or publicly with the everyone. In a game which looked very similar"
"played with a Reversi set. Ataxx is an abstract strategy board game that involves play by two parties on a seven-by-seven square grid. The object of the game is to make your pieces constitute a majority of the pieces on the board at the end of the game, by converting as many of your opponent's pieces as possible. Each player begins with two pieces, white and black, for the first player and second player respectively. The game starts with the four pieces on the four corners of the board, with white in the top left and bottom right and black"
"chess variant called Quest Chess, based on principles from Conquest. Conquest (board game) Conquest is a strategy board game created and published by Donald Benge. First published in 1972 with cardboard pieces, it evolved to plastic pieces and a deluxe set in pewter plated in various metals including gold. The game is based on point to point movement and capture, with an innovative recapture interspersed. Pieces may mount each other such as a soldier mounting a chariot, and both boarding a ship. The pieces also include elephants and knights. Starting with a two player version, a four player board was"
"toys and trading card games before their arcade games in the mid-1970s. Most of their later releases between 1973 and 1978 were light gun games based on shooting or avoiding things. The cabinets used pre-recorded images and film projection rather than video inside. The company's first electronic video game was an adaptation of the board game ""Reversi"", released in 1978. Many of Nintendo's first coin-operated, electronic arcade games were slight variations on existing games, known as knockoffs or clones. Later in 1978, Nintendo released a ""Breakout"" clone, based on the popular arcade game. The company's most famous arcade games would"
"received in the reinforcements phase makes the cards a powerful tool for winning the game. Border Reivers (game) Border Reivers is a light warfare/economic development board game designed by Jackson Pope published in 2006 by Reiver Games in English. Players assume the roles of clans on the Scottish and English Borders during the Middle Ages, striving to achieve ascendancy via economic or military means. ""Border Reivers"" can be played by two to four players and takes around 30 to 90 minutes to play. Players take it in turns to complete six phases of their turns. The game ends when all"
"to an unblocked square. Awari is an abstract strategy game among the Mancala family of board games (pit and pebble games). Backgammon is a board game for two players where the checker-like playing pieces are moved according to the roll of dice; a player wins by removing all of his pieces from the board before his opponent. Bridge is a trick-taking card game for four players. Bridge participation in the Computer Olympiad has largely discontinued when in 1996 the American Contract Bridge League established a new official World Computer Bridge Championship, to be run annually at a major bridge tournament."
"Border Reivers (game) Border Reivers is a light warfare/economic development board game designed by Jackson Pope published in 2006 by Reiver Games in English. Players assume the roles of clans on the Scottish and English Borders during the Middle Ages, striving to achieve ascendancy via economic or military means. ""Border Reivers"" can be played by two to four players and takes around 30 to 90 minutes to play. Players take it in turns to complete six phases of their turns. The game ends when all but one player have been annihilated, or a player starts their turn with 40 gold."
"""Aladdin's Adventures"", the player controls Aladdin against an evil genie who is trying to steal his magic carpets. ""Outflank"" is a game of Reversi on an 8x8 grid, with three difficulty levels. The player can undo a wrong move and swap places with an AI during gameplay. Palmtex Portable Videogame System The Palmtex Portable Videogame System (PVS), later renamed as the Super Micro and distributed under the Home Computer Software name, is a handheld video game console developed and manufactured by Palmtex, released in 1984. The system is widely known and referred to as the Palmtex Super Micro, due to"
"Reverse (American football) A reverse (sometimes referred to as an end reverse or criss cross) is a relatively common trick play in American football that involves one or more abrupt changes in the lateral flow of a rushing play. The invention of the reverse is credited to Amos Alonzo Stagg. The invention of the ""naked"" reverse, i. e. a reverse run to the weak side, is credited to Pop Warner. A classic reverse typically begins as a bootleg, sweep or end reverse, but before the ball-carrier crosses the line of scrimmage he hands the ball off to a teammate, usually"
"with much more fluid movement of pieces. Baroque that is similar to Maxima with additional pieces and rules. As shogi is to chess, Renaissance to Baroque—Pieces may be revived and reborn. Renaissance is played on a 9×9 board with a Swapper (or Resurrector or Ankh) that moves like a queen for all ordinary purposes, but for swapping actions must move like a king, trading places with any adjacent piece (both friend or foe), never capturing it. Consistent with the concept of the Swapper (or Resurrector) being a piece wholly incapable of killing, it can also step into any adjacent empty"
"Reverse (bridge) A reverse, in the card game contract bridge, is a bidding sequence designed to show additional strength without the need to make a jump bid; specifically two suits are bid in the reverse order to that expected by the basic bidding system. Precise methods and definitions vary with country, bidding system and partnership agreements. In Standard American a reverse is defined by William S. Root as ""... a nonjump bid at the two-level in a new suit ""that ranks higher than the suit you bid first"""", and by Bridge World. as ""a non-jump bid in a new suit"
"Banqi Banqi () or Half Chess, also known as Dark Chess (暗棋) or Blind Chess (盲棋), is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4x8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese chess) board. Most games last between ten and twenty minutes, but advanced games can go on for an hour or more. Banqi is a social game, usually played for fun rather than serious competition. A more formal version of the game may have evolved into Jungle (board game) and modern Luzhanqi. Although boards made specifically for Banqi exist, it is common to play on one half of"
"Concentration (game) Concentration, also known as Match Match, Match Up, Memory, Pelmanism, Shinkei-suijaku, Pexeso or simply Pairs, is a card game in which all of the cards are laid face down on a surface and two cards are flipped face up over each turn. The object of the game is to turn over pairs of matching cards. Concentration can be played with any number of players or as solitaire. It is a particularly good game for young children, though adults may find it challenging and stimulating as well. The scheme is often used in quiz shows and can be employed"
"20th century both Georgia and Kalmucks were parts of USSR, so now the game is played in Russia and other ex-USSR countries under the name of ""nardy"" (нарды). Backgammon in those countries is known as ""short"" nard (Короткие нарды). Nard (game) Nard (, also narde or nardshir; from ""nēw-ardaxšīr"") is a tables-style board game for two players in which the playing pieces are moved according to rolls of dice. It is similar to backgammon in that it uses the same board, but it has different initial positions and rules. The game has been historically popular in Persia, Muslim countries, and"
"Turn-based strategy A turn-based strategy (TBS) game is a strategy game (usually some type of wargame, especially a strategic-level wargame) where players take turns when playing. This is distinguished from real time strategy, in which all players play simultaneously. Many board games are turn based, such as chess, Reversi, checkers, Hare games, and Go, as well as many modern board games. Turn-based tactical game-play is characterized by the expectation of players to complete their tasks by using the combat forces provided to them, and usually by the provision of a realistic (or at least believable) representation of military tactics and"
"the sexes are called coordination games. These games have reaction correspondences of the same shape as Figure 3, where there is one Nash equilibrium in the bottom left corner, another in the top right, and a mixing Nash somewhere along the diagonal between the other two. Games such as the game of chicken and hawk-dove game in which players score highest when they choose opposite strategies, i.e., discoordinate, are called anti-coordination games. They have reaction correspondences (Figure 4) that cross in the opposite direction to coordination games, with three Nash equilibria, one in each of the top left and bottom"
"changes in elevation, allowing characters to leap on top of crates or use them as weapons, for example. The PlayStation version includes a Quest Mode, similar to ""Tobal No. 1"" and ""Tobal 2"", titled ""Brand New Quest: The Forsaken Dungeon"". Players fight through an extensive dungeon crawl, much like the Blizzard title ""Diablo"", and can equip different weapons and items. There are also several smaller minigames, such as a race mode, where players run laps around a course while engaging in combat to slow down their opponent, and a board game similar to Reversi. Quest Mode is a hack and"
"Backgammon Backgammon is one of the oldest known board games. Its history can be traced back nearly 5,000 years to archeological discoveries in the Middle East. It is a two player game where each player has fifteen pieces (""checkers"") which move between twenty-four triangles (""points"") according to the roll of two dice. The objective of the game is to be first to ""bear off"", i.e. move all fifteen checkers off the board. Backgammon is a member of the tables family, one of the oldest classes of board games. Backgammon involves a combination of strategy and luck (from rolling dice). While"
"'double reverse.' Reverse (American football) A reverse (sometimes referred to as an end reverse or criss cross) is a relatively common trick play in American football that involves one or more abrupt changes in the lateral flow of a rushing play. The invention of the reverse is credited to Amos Alonzo Stagg. The invention of the ""naked"" reverse, i. e. a reverse run to the weak side, is credited to Pop Warner. A classic reverse typically begins as a bootleg, sweep or end reverse, but before the ball-carrier crosses the line of scrimmage he hands the ball off to a"
"Coan ki Çoan ki (, also ""erectus ludus"" or ""The Bottle Game"") is a Chinese board game similar to backgammon. It was first described in 1694 by Dr. Thomas Hyde in ""De Ludis Orientalibus Libri Duo"". On a board divided transversely into eight fields, players take turns to move their sixteen bottle- or vase-shaped pieces around the board according to the roll of two dice. The aim of the game is to get all of a player's pieces to make one full circuit around the board and return them to their starting position. Dice rolls can be divided between pieces"
"sentence; or a relatively simple cake puzzle, where the player has to divide the cake evenly into six pieces, each containing the same number of decorations. Other puzzles include mazes, chess problems, logical deductions, Simon-style pattern-matching, word manipulations, and even an extremely difficult game of Infection similar to Reversi that utilizes an AI (and would later go on to make an encore appearance in the sequel). For players who need help or simply cannot solve a particular puzzle, there is a hint book in the library of the house. The first two times the book is consulted about a puzzle,"
"the other. There are nine different types of player piece, in gold or silver, each with unique movement. The object of the game is to capture the opponent's Life Force piece. The core of the 3 boards is a ""black hole"" and this is the means of transferring pieces between boards. Taliesin Master Game Taliesin Master Game is a board game invented by Ronald William Astle and distributed in 1981 by Talforce Ltd. The game was notable for being released in three versions: The Starter Game, which consisted of moving chess-like pieces on a circular board. The Master Game, which"
"Conquest (board game) Conquest is a strategy board game created and published by Donald Benge. First published in 1972 with cardboard pieces, it evolved to plastic pieces and a deluxe set in pewter plated in various metals including gold. The game is based on point to point movement and capture, with an innovative recapture interspersed. Pieces may mount each other such as a soldier mounting a chariot, and both boarding a ship. The pieces also include elephants and knights. Starting with a two player version, a four player board was developed which can be played as a free for all,"