Three-Color Territory Game for Two
Three-Color Territory Game for Two
The board is covered with "polysquare" areas, each painted in light blue, light red, or light yellow.
The player Blue plays against the player Red. The players alternate, claiming one polysquare tile per round.
Claiming a polysquare of your own color adds to your points; claiming one of the other player's polysquares reduces your points.
How is claiming done? The player whose turn it is clicks the unclaimed polysquare tile at a board position that is adjacent to a position already claimed by the player (this "adjacent" requirement does not apply to the first move of a player).
For Blue, the value of a light blue polysquare is the square of its land area (or equal to it), hence a pentasquare is worth 25 points (or 5 points, depending on the choice the players agree upon).
For Blue, the value of a light red polysquare is the (negative of the) square of its land area (or equal to it); hence a pentasquare is worth minus 25 points (or minus 5 points).
For Red, the value of a claimed polysquare is opposite to what it would be for Blue.
Yellow tiles have no value.
Click a polysquare to claim it; it is marked in blue (or red) dots. From your second move onward, you can only click next to an already-claimed position.
Your task is to create a sphere of ownership (territory) whose value (shown below the playing board) is larger than your opponent's territory value.