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Bug in Slither?

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#2 · Marius Halsor

10 Oct 2012

No bug at all. It seems you are both missing one of the core rules of Slither. When it's your turn, you do TWO things:

1) MOVE a stone (optional)
2) Place a new stone

This is very essential. Only in very few situations do you not wish to move a stone. In your situation, placing a stone would have been possible if you first had moved a stone.

Hint: Look at a game between top players to see how the game should be played :-)

#3 · FatPhil

10 Oct 2012

Indeed, moving is a vital part of the game. It's what gives slither a unique twist, and its name.

In a situation like yours where you've got alternating colours on two sides of a gap, out of phase, such as

xox
---
oxo

You can typically move one of the pieces ...

-ox xox
-X- or X--
oxo o-o

and then place the necessary connecting piece

-ox xox
-xX or x-X
oxo o-o

(And let's hope the tags work...)

#4 · Iluvatar

14 Oct 2012

Thanks, both of you. We're new to the Slither, and I guess we may have missed a few details about the rules of the game.
Think we were a bit too much stuck up with the rules of Hex and Twixt to see the difference.
Thanks again. :)