Lines of Action

Opening Position

No. of Players

Two

Equipment

An 8x8 square grid and twelve each of black and white counters are required for play.

History

Lines of Action was invented by Claude Soucie in 1969 and included in Sid Sackson's A Gamut of Games in 1969.

Objective

The object of the game is to bring all of one's counters together into a contiguous body so that they are connected vertically, horizontally or diagonally.

Play

Turns alternate with black moving first. Movement is for a single friendly counter along a straight line (orthogonal or diagonal), exactly as many spaces as there are counters, friendly or opposing, in that straight line......................

Strategy

Variations

Scrambled Eggs is a variant played exactly the same, only with a different opening position.

Sources

  1. Sackson, Sid. A Gamut of Games. Castle Books, New Tork, 1969.

  2. Lines of Action at Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lines_of_Action

  3. Neto, Joāo Pedro and Jorge Nuno Silva. Mathematical Games, Abstract Games. Dover Publications, Inc. 2013. ISBN 978-0-486-49990-1