How to Play Ataxx: Learn the Rules
Ataxx is a two-player abstract strategy board game played on a 7x7 grid. Each turn you either clone a piece onto an adjacent square or jump a piece two squares away, and every enemy piece next to where you land flips to your color. Grow the larger army and control the board to win.
How to Play Ataxx: Learn the Rules
Ataxx is a two-player abstract strategy board game played on a 7x7 grid. Each turn you either clone a piece onto an adjacent square or jump a piece two squares away, and every enemy piece next to where you land flips to your color. Grow the larger army and control the board to win.
Objective
The goal of Ataxx is to own more pieces than your opponent when the board fills up or neither side can move. You expand your color across the 7x7 board by cloning and jumping, and by flipping enemy pieces that sit next to your new square. Whoever controls the majority of the 49 squares at the end wins.
Setup
The game is played on a 7x7 board with no blocked squares. Each player begins with two pieces placed in opposite corners: the first player holds the top-left and bottom-right corners, and the second player holds the top-right and bottom-left corners. The first player moves first.
Gameplay
On your turn you make one of two moves. A clone (grow) places a new piece on an empty square one step away in any of the eight directions, leaving the original piece in place, so your army increases by one. A jump moves a piece to an empty square exactly two steps away, and the starting square becomes empty, so your count stays the same. After the piece lands, every opponent piece touching the destination square, orthogonally or diagonally, is converted to your color. If you have no legal move, you must pass and your opponent keeps playing.
Winning
The game ends when the board is completely full, when a player has no pieces left, or when neither player can move. The player with more pieces of their color wins. Because the 7x7 board has 49 squares, a completely filled board cannot be tied, so decisive results are the norm.
Objective
The goal of Ataxx is to own more pieces than your opponent when the board fills up or neither side can move. You expand your color across the 7x7 board by cloning and jumping, and by flipping enemy pieces that sit next to your new square. Whoever controls the majority of the 49 squares at the end wins.
Setup
The game is played on a 7x7 board with no blocked squares. Each player begins with two pieces placed in opposite corners: the first player holds the top-left and bottom-right corners, and the second player holds the top-right and bottom-left corners. The first player moves first.
Gameplay
On your turn you make one of two moves. A clone (grow) places a new piece on an empty square one step away in any of the eight directions, leaving the original piece in place, so your army increases by one. A jump moves a piece to an empty square exactly two steps away, and the starting square becomes empty, so your count stays the same. After the piece lands, every opponent piece touching the destination square, orthogonally or diagonally, is converted to your color. If you have no legal move, you must pass and your opponent keeps playing.
Winning
The game ends when the board is completely full, when a player has no pieces left, or when neither player can move. The player with more pieces of their color wins. Because the 7x7 board has 49 squares, a completely filled board cannot be tied, so decisive results are the norm.
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