Reversi

How to play Reversi

1. You play black. Place a disc so that it frames one or more white discs in a line, with another black disc at the far end.
2. Every framed disc flips to your color. Lines work in all eight directions.
3. Small dots show where you can play. If you have no legal move, you pass.
4. When neither side can move, the player with the most discs wins.
5. Choose 2 players to play with a friend on the same screen.

Tips

• Corners can never be flipped: grab them whenever you can.
• Avoid the squares right next to an empty corner: they hand the corner to your opponent.
• Early on, flipping many discs is often a mistake: it gives your opponent more choices.
• Keep your options open: the player with more possible moves usually wins the end game.
• On Easy and Medium, and with two players, Undo takes back your last move along with the computer's answer. On Hard, every move counts.

About Reversi

Reversi is a classic board game from the 19th century, played on an 8 x 8 board with discs that are black on one side and white on the other. A single move can turn the whole board around.

The computer weighs each square (corners and edges are worth a lot, squares near corners are risky) and counts how many moves each side keeps. On Hard it looks several moves ahead.

Points and badges

Finishing a game of Reversi earns points for your level. Four badges are waiting in this game, from bronze to diamond: each one says what to do and adds bonus points.

Questions