I recently noticed the stairs option today and thought it would be really neat if it had a random game option; like many of the tournaments. Playing a variety of games (why my win to loss ratio is like 1/3) is one of the main reasons i came to brainking in the first place and if i had to only choose one stair; then it'd me really hard to choose :) !

mancala, also called wari(oware) can be played at kurnik.org live, so you can test it, also at ludoteka.com (no ratings). afaik it is also played at mind olympic games in Czech Republic

How about add a submarine to the game.

1. You can't kill submarines

2. They can only move one square per turn (diagonal OK)

3. They use "sonar" to detect enemy ships. They can't pin point them. Just detect that there is one or more ships above them (in the 3x3 square grid with the sub in the middle). As you move the sub around, you could deduce an enemy's ship location.

4. You get all of your shots plus one submarine move per turn.

pedrored: Agreed, thats how i have played it before.

pedrored: I agree with pedrored!

There is something strange in this game

I played this game in Richard's Pbem server
These are the rules, with a difference in the jump mmovements. Infact you have to jump with the "horse move" too. For example from A1 you can jump also in B3 and C2


Object of the Game
The object of the game is to have the majority of your colour discs on the board at the end of the game.
A Minute To Learn
Black places two black discs and White places two white discs as shown in Figure 1. The game always begins with this setup.

A B C D E F G
1 o . . . . . x
2 . . . . . . .
3 . . . . . . .
4 . . . . . . .
5 . . . . . . .
6 . . . . . . .
7 x . . . . . o
Figure 1

A move consists of either a "growth" or a "jump". A growth is when you select one of your pieces and place a new piece in an empty adjacent space, including diagonally. A jump is when you select one of your pieces and move it to an empty space that is two position away. This includes diagonals and "knights moves".

j j j j j
j g g g j
j g . g j g = valid "growth" destinations from the center
j g g g j j = valid "jump" destinations form the center
j j j j j

Once placed, any opponents pieces that are adjacent to the new piece (either through growth or jump) are flipped the to the moving player's colour.

If you are unable to move on your turn, you are skipped. There is a chance that your opponent may be forced to make a move that will let you move again.

Hi folks. I doubt this game will get as quick a response to getting on here as Ataxx, but I would like to see the Mancala type of games on here. You can find more information at Wikipedia.

It is mostly an African game played long ago.

hexkid @ 2006-09-20 19:22 : Ataxx?
Fencer @ 2006-09-21 13:09 : Ataxx!

That was fast :)
Thank you.

Fencer:

Thank you

MadMonkey: yes outbreak is a great game shame about the site!!!!

hexkid: The Boogers version with 4 players looks interesting. We need some multi-player(more than 2 lol) games on Brainking.

Outbreak that they have Goltoken is another good game (Fencer ) LOL.

Fencer: I found another page with lots more info on Ataxx (and Hexagon and variants).

Fencer: Yes, clean board, no holes. There are also ataxx variants with a different board (holes).

hexkid: Is it played on a clean board, with no holes?

hexkid:

it's an amusing game, I have played several games in Pbem server

hexkid:

Well now that we all know what it is, can my question be answered please?  LOL

Mystery Man: That's how it worked before, right?

Congrats, all well & good. I just wish it wasn't added in the middle of my game. ALTHOUGH, this does bring up a good thought;
Fencer, what do you think about the idea of adding "Dark" variants of Jungle and Espionage games? (the choice of NOT showing the Captured Pieces) I prefer a little mystery in the games, know what I mean? :)
Thanx friend.......

hexkid: Thank you for the pictures. It appears that I have the Java scripting turned on as Reza's post directed me to the link. Would the Computer Discusion board be the place to ask you about the imagine hosting?

Walter Montego: The RTE is a mechanism to type with the mouse :)

You need JavaScript enabled to view the link that opens it up.

I made three screenshots, just for you ...
a) No JavaScript
b) JavaScript on (update with some text in it)
c) The RTE ready for editing (update with with text in it)

King Reza: That's slick. Now I know how some people have been changing the font, color, and size in their posts.
Thanks.

Walter Montego:Check the blue link on top of the box you type your messages in.

Baked Alaskan: What's Rich Text Editor?

Ataxx on Wikipedia

I've only ever played it against my mobile phone :))

Pente have total 6 variations and no separate category

King Reza:

Rich Text Editor  

King Reza: rich text editor

King Reza: hmmmm Right To Execute

Baked Alaskan:What's RTE?

could players who have not visited the site for, say, three months, be removed from Stairs leagues?

I would like to use the RTE just for certain members.
Is this possible?

King Reza: You can have that feature if you use hexkids grease monkey script.

user scripting fellowship

However that would be nice if implemented directly on bk.

King Reza: great idea

King Reza: That sounds like a really good idea.

joshi tm:Well, actually I think these options are getting inconvinient all of them being there at the same time.  If I want to choose one, I have to look through a long list and find it.  That's while many of those options are not used by me.  There are only a few that I use.  So I think it'd be nice if we could choose which ones to appear on our list.  Then Fencer could add as many as he wanted, an dwe could choose those we need.

How about an option; Move and go to the next game with the same tournament name?

El Cid: I don't know if this is what was meant, but a cool feature would be to be able to "drag and drop" the boats onto the board! That would really help out big time! :)

pauloaguia:

On the main Profile page, users can write a text about themselves. Some users have a very looong text in there, and you have to scroll all the way down the page to find the Friends/Enemies links and the invite to a game option.
Why not push these actions to the top of that text, so that all the options are easilly accessible?

MadMonkey: Just replying to myself.
I requested a 'Move and goto next TEAM Tournament' option in the Drop list (dont shout i know its a good idea).
I was just wondering why the 'Move and goto next game of this Tournament' do what it says it should do??
It seems it does not count Team Tourny's as actual Tournaments, most odd...

Marfitalu:In other words, he means that there will be a button on every user's profile by pressing which people can ask him/her to be interviewed.  And, I have access to a chart sort of thing which says how many players, and how many times each, hav ebeen asked to be interviewed.  Each month, I'll choose the most wanted person.  I think it's a nice feature, but I'm not sure if it's easy to make.

Mr. Shumway: I think he means not having to re-select the boat, on the right of the game board

Amandakmg365: Do you mean the following: if you just placed the boats randomly by choosing the "random placement of remaining pieces" option and don't like the setup, that you can generate another random position with one (new) button instead of clearing the board and randomizing it afterwards.

Amandakmg365: I don't understand the question either then.

If you are just looking to remove 1 piece that you don't like the placement of, then just click on that 1 piece.

If you don't like ANY of the layout of ALL of the pices, then like Mr. Shumway said - choose the "clear this position" option below the board to clear the board where you can then start over.

Mr. Shumway:


Hello: What I was saying was that if we don't like the boat placement then to be able to use one click to remove and place again.

Amandakmg365: Just click on the boat itself. If you want to remove all placed boats, select the option "Clear this position" under the board.

Hello: This is for the players when they have to place their boats. Would it be possible to have a place to click on that lets us remove the boats and place them again? Thank you.

El Cid: Read this.

El Cid: correct, usefull feature

Vikings: In games, you can also choose which pond you want. And the reason why I made that request is that I didn't remember anything like that, but it looks like it has been done