Games of Kings and Soldiers

COLLECTOR

Copyright (c) 2002 Walter Joris

This game is played in a 6x6 square board.

GROUP - a (orthogonally or diagonally) connected set of friendly stones.

MOVE - On each turn, a player must drop a friendly stone and a neutral stone, both on (orthogonal or diagonal) adjacent empty cells.

GOAL - When all cells are occupied, wins the player with the largest group.

An ended game
At this position, the largest groups of each player are marked. So, White won by 7-3.
The isolated cells cannot be used, since the friendly stone and the neutral stone should be dropped adjacent to each other.

Another ended game
In this game, White also won, but by 8-6.

This game can be player with just pencil and paper. It is presented at 100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper by Walter Joris.

	An ended game At this position, the largest groups of each player are marked. So, White won by 7-3. The isolated cells cannot be used, since the friendly stone and the neutral stone should be dropped adjacent to each other.
	Another ended game In this game, White also won, but by 8-6.