Candy Necklace társasjáték

Angol leírás

Candy Necklace is a two-player game. A square board of any size is used. The north and south board edges are colored red. The west and east edges are colored blue. The board is initially empty.

The two players, Red and Blue, take turns placing their own stones onto unoccupied points on the board, one stone per turn, starting with Red. Passing is not allowed, but if you don't have an available placement, your turn is skipped.

You win if there is an orthogonally interconnected path of stones of your color connecting the two board edges of your color.

Placement restrictionsPlayers are not allowed to form a crosscut or a crosscut-equivalent loop.

A crosscut is a 2×2 area with two diagonally adjacent red stones and two diagonally adjacent blue stones.

A loop is a closed path of stones, of either or both colors, interconnected via orthogonal or diagonal adjacencies, or both. All loops considered here have alternating color stones. Every stone in the loop is the opposite color of its two neighboring stones.

A loop is crosscut-equivalent if it can't be filled in without creating a crosscut.

Merging crosscutsEvery crosscut-equivalent loop can be built up from crosscuts in the following manner. Start with two separate crosscut formations. Remove a stone from each of them, of opposite colors. Then merge the two broken crosscuts, making them intersect where their missing stones were.

Every crosscut equivalent loop can be built up by repeatedly merging crosscuts into what started as another crosscut, but has now grown to become a complex loop.