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TwixT is a two-player abstract strategy
board game invented by Alex Randolph. It is a member of the
connection game family,
along with games such as Hex, Havannah, Y, and Star.
Twixt is played on a 24x24 square board of points, with the four corners missing. The two players are Red and Black; the
topmost and bottommost rows belong to Red, and the leftmost and rightmost rows belong to Black.
The rules are as follows:
- The players take turns placing pegs of their respective colors on the board, one peg per turn.
- A player may not place a peg on the rows which belong to their opponents.
- Red places the first peg. To counteract first-move advantage, the pie rule is
suggested.
- After placing a peg, you may link one or more pairs of pegs on the board which are all your own colour. The links
can only go between two pegs a knight's move away from each other,
and cannot cross another link; they block other links, most importantly the opponent's. You may remove your own links (but not
your opponent's) in order to rearrange the sequence of links on the board.
The first player to make a continuous chain of linked pieces between their two sides wins.
3M originally published TwixT as part of its Bookshelf Games line; Avalon Hill took over publication at a later date. It is no longer produced in the
United States of America, although Schmidt Spiele produced copies of the
game in Germany, and Kosmos published a version of the game in 1998.
TwixT can be played by email via Richard Rognlie's Play-By-eMail Server.
You can play real-time TwixT on the K2Z.org (it is of course free)
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