Connect Four
Drop discs and line up four in a row before the computer does. The Expert opponent…
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18 games against a computer opponent: Reversi, Checkers, Connect Four, Nine Men's Morris, Hex, Battleship, Oware and more, plus chess mates.
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Connect Four
Drop discs and line up four in a row before the computer does. The Expert opponent…
Checkers
Classic American checkers with forced captures, multi-jumps and kings, against a computer…
Reversi
Trap your opponent's discs between yours to flip them. Corners are gold. The computer…
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Tic-Tac-Toe
A five-round match of noughts and crosses against the computer. On Hard it never makes a…
Connect Four
Drop discs and line up four in a row before the computer does. The Expert opponent…
Checkers
Classic American checkers with forced captures, multi-jumps and kings, against a computer…
Chess Puzzle Challenges
Find the checkmate. Forty verified puzzles: mate in one on Easy and Medium, mate in two…
Nim Strategy
Take stones from one heap per turn; take the last stone to win. A perfect opponent on…
Reversi
Trap your opponent's discs between yours to flip them. Corners are gold. The computer…
Dots and Boxes
Take turns drawing lines between dots. Complete a box to claim it and move again. Most…
Mancala
Sow seeds around the board, land in your store for extra turns and capture your…
Five in a Row
Place stones on a 15×15 board and be the first to make an unbroken line of five. Watch…
Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe
Nine tic-tac-toe boards in one. The square you choose decides which board your opponent…
Nine Men's Morris
Place and slide your nine pieces to form mills of three. Every mill removes an opposing…
Hex
Connect your two sides of the diamond-shaped board before the computer connects its…
Battleship
Hunt the computer’s hidden fleet before it sinks yours. The Expert opponent uses…
Breakthrough
Two armies of pawns race to reach the far side. Move forward, capture diagonally — first…
Isolation
Two knights jump around a shrinking board. Every square you leave is closed for good —…
Oware
The West African sowing game: capture pits of two or three seeds in your opponent’s row…
Lines of Action
Gather all your pieces into one connected group. Pieces move as many squares as there are…
Fox and Hounds
Command four hounds on a checkerboard and trap the computer’s fox before it slips past…
Plan ahead and outthink your opponent
Strategy games are where planning meets tactics. Each move changes what both players can do next, and the best players think about their opponent's options as much as their own.
A real computer opponent
Most of Game Oix's computer opponents use genuine game-tree search (minimax with alpha-beta pruning) rather than scripted moves; others, such as Hex, Dots and Boxes and Five in a Row, use evaluation functions built for that game (connection distance, chain counting, threat counting). On Easy they deliberately make occasional mistakes; on Expert they look several moves ahead.
Classics
Checkers, Connect Four, Reversi, Tic-Tac-Toe and Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe, Nine Men's Morris, Five in a Row and Dots and Boxes.
Sowing games
Mancala (Kalah rules) and Oware (abapa rules) — two of the oldest board games in the world.
Abstract strategy
Hex, Breakthrough, Lines of Action, Isolation, Fox and Hounds and Nim Strategy.
Hidden information and puzzles
Battleship against a computer that ranges from random shots on Easy to probability-based targeting on Expert, and Chess Puzzle Challenges — forty mate-in-one and mate-in-two puzzles, every one verified by a move-checking engine.
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