an abstract boardgame
Rules
- The game is played on an 8×8 board, but it can also be played on boards of different sizes.
- The first player places 1 stone at their discretion on the empty board.
- The second player places 2 stones according to a protocol in 2 moves:
1Drop – 1Free.
Drop move: the player places their stone in place of an opponent’s stone, moving that opponent’s stone to a free adjacent square that is diagonally or orthogonally adjacent.
Free move: the player then places their own stone in a free square that has no stones adjacent diagonally or orthogonally.
- Players take turns placing their 2 stones according to the 1Drop – 1Free protocol on the board until it is no longer possible to place Free moves. At that point, players proceed only with Drop moves.
- When placement possibilities are exhausted, the groups sizes for each player are counted. The player with the largest group wins, in the event of a tie, the size of the second largest group is counted and so on. ”Groups” refer to a single stone or a set of stones of the same color adjacent orthogonally.
Dropper by Andrea Chia is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
You can play Dropper on Dagaz Project of Valentin Chelnokov.
https://dagazproject.github.io/
Dropper is playable online on Dagaz Server.
https://games.dtco.ru/
Game discussion:
https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/3052710/dropper-new-game