This is Alpha, the first-born, when he was 2YO.
This is Beta, the second-born, when he was about 2YO.
This is Gamma, the third-born, when he was about 18MO.
The 5 Hows: Othello
Sep
29
2023
1. How do I win?
By having more chips showing your color than the opponents does of his color.
2. How do I get the chips to show my color?
Place your chip down at the end of a row. All the chips of the opponent’s color in a line between your newly-placed chip and an existing chip of your color, you get the flip them to your color.
Note that you must have a chip of your color in the line – if it’s a line of all the other color, then nothing happens.
Also note that you can convert only the chips in that line until the first of your color. If the line of the other color is interrupted by one of your color, then you must not flip any chips after that one, even if you have another chip later in the line.
3. How do I prevent the opponents from taking over my chips on the board?
The only way to truly prevent it is by getting to the corners. A corner is the end of all lines, so no one can place a chip after it to flip it.
The edge of the board is better than the middle, but the corner is the best.
4. How does the game end?
Keep taking turns until the board is full. Or, if you have an older game and lost some chips, until you’re out of chips.
5. How do we start the game?
Place 4 chips in the middle of the board, 2 of each color and alternating, like this:
XO
OX
Then the first player places a chip wherever he wants, and you take turns.
There, now go play Othello. Or Reversi, they’re similar.
So he removed on that day the striped or spotted male goats, and all the speckled or spotted female goats, every one with white on it, and all the black ones among the sheep, and put them in the care of his sons.
Genesis 30:35
This little article thingy was written by Some Guy sometime around 1:22 pm and has been carefully placed in the Fun category.
