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Octi

The POWER OF FLEXIBILITY

Developed in 1992 by Donald Green, a professor at Yale University, Octi is a game with a very simple aim – be the first to occupy an opposing starting position with one of your pods. In the basic version, which is played on a board of 6x7 squares each player starts with 4 pods and 12 prongs which can be placed on the pods. These prongs determine the direction or directions in which a pod can move: in any direction where a prong points to.

A pod is placed on the board so that the arrow on the pod always points to the opponent’s base line, this alignment must always be kept up and cannot be changed- In your turn you can place a pod on the board, upgrade a pod by adding a prong, move a pod one step onto a free square. When moving a pod you can jump over other pods and can thus capture a pod, an opposing one as well as one of your own if this seems a good move. Again, a pod can only move in a direction for which it carries a prong. If you capture a pod and thus take it out of the game you receive the prongs on the pod for your own use.

Versions are Octi-X = Octi Extrem on a 9x9 board, you may stack your own pods on top of each other, or Octy Extrem Classic, you must occupy all three starting positions of your opponent to win. For both versions addition rules do apply.

Octi is one of those games that are seemingly easy and quick to learn, but this only goes for the rules. The strategies and possibilities offered by the game need intensive play and work with the game to probe their depth and to try them out. Octi definitely is one of the best “modern” abstract strategy games for two players.

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : approx. 15-60 min

Autor           : Donald Green

Grafik          : nicht genannt

Titel englisch          : ident

Preis            : approx. 30,00 Euro

Verlag          : Heidelberger Spieleverlag 2010

                     www.heidelbaer.de

Genre                    : abstract position game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Upgrade and move pieces

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Co-production with FoxMind

Simple basic rules

Manifold tactical possibilities

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Vergleichbar:

Chess for different moves of the pieces, otherwise all abstract games for 2 where opposing start positions must be occupied

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