Reversi (Othello) on the Evo: trap your opponent's discs between yours and the whole line flips. You play black and move first; small dots mark every square you're allowed to play, so the rules teach themselves.
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By CalcPlex.
Controls
- Arrows move the cursor around the board. It wraps around the edges.
- ENTER plays a disc on the square under the cursor. It only works on a square marked with a dot.
- If you have no legal move, the game says so and passes your turn when you press any key.
- CLEAR goes back to the title screen. Press it again there to quit.
- On the title screen, left / right arrows pick 1 PLAYER (EASY, NORMAL or HARD) or 2 PLAYERS, the up or down arrow shows how to play, and ENTER starts.
- When a game ends, ENTER plays again and left / right arrows go back to the title screen.
An AI with opinions
The CPU judges positions the way club players do: corners are gold, the squares next to an empty corner are poison, and keeping its options open matters more than owning discs early. In the endgame it switches to counting discs, because by then that's all that counts.
That means it's beatable the honest way: play for corners, starve its moves, and don't celebrate a mid-game disc lead that means nothing.
Modes and score
Play 1P against the CPU, with your lifetime win/loss/draw record saved on the calculator, or 2-PLAYER pass-and-play. A side panel keeps live disc counts and whose turn it is; forced passes and game-over are handled automatically.