How to play Twixt

[@ParasocialCatgirl]

Just need to clarify something: Is there any limit to how many links you can place in a single turn (assuming that the necessary unlinked pegs in the correct positions are already present)? I'm assuming that there is no limit (these instructions heavily imply that there is no limit), but doesnt hurt to double-check, y'know?

[@severalpigeons6946]

He says "two or more" at 0:35, so yea, you'd be right

[@POPcat1550]

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[@POPcat1550]

​@@severalpigeons6946the part 0:35 he talks about how many pegs you can link, not how many pegs you can place.

[@bbzabstractgames]

You absolutely can put multiple links in a same move. To be precise you can put as many you want, in a 2-1 form of course. Nevertheless... If two of your links should cross each other, after each move you can chose which one you wanna have.

[@jonathanbush6197]

No mention is made of drawn games. Perhaps this is because when Triple S did a video about Hex, a similar game, he got some flak for mentioning draws, which are impossible in that game. Draws are rare in Twixt but they can definitely happen when one player makes an impenetrable barrier to the other, but this barrier does not connect both sides with an uninterrupted chain. These are the rules provided with old 3M or Avalon Hill sets. The inventor, Alex Randolph, was persuaded by his Twixt-playing friends to add the pie rule to later editions, to mitigate the natural advantage of the first move. See Wikipedia. 3M and AH included Double Twixt in the rules, for four players in two teams.

[@Kazmahu]

How do you even draw in this game? The player with a non-winning barrier can pull up pegs to work on completing his position, and the blocked player can still make moves in the meantime. Unless I'm missing something the only way to stalemate is for at least one player to be dragging the game out indefinitely on purpose.

[@jonathanbush6197]

I cannot post an image or a link, but search for the BoardGameGeek Twixt forums for my recent post "Draw example." Registration there is free. IMO we will be better able to discuss these abstruse concepts there.

[@jonathanbush6197]

@@Kazmahu I cannot post an image nor a link, but if you search for the BoardGameGeek Twixt page and then click on the Forums link, look for my recent post "Draw example." Registration there is free. I believe we can better discuss these abstruse concepts there.

[@Dwight-m1w]

@@Kazmahu Find the BoardGameBeek Twixt page, then look for the recent forum post Draw example.

[@sonicmeerkat]

actually looks pretty fun

[@ehq9826]

yeah

[@UnknownGamingDownpourDash]

The object of the game is to get an uninterrupted chain of linked replies.

[@UnknownGamingDownpourDash]

Ok

[@PotatoesBoy]

game over

[@NoNameAtAll2]

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[@K.114.]

???? 🤣🤣🤣

[@ThatOneKat511]

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[@inspectorhound7931]

This game is an improvement of an earlier game, Bridg-it. Bridg-it worked on a similar connection principle, but with the sides of squares connected, rather than the diagonal of a 2x3 rectangle. Bridg-it was in turn based on Gale, invented by David Gale then at Brown University. The improvement was necessary because Bridg-it got solved -- the first player can always win. See Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Games, by Martin Gardner, chapter eighteen.

[@Zurround]

I came up with a great variant way to play: On each turn a player can play their choice of one or 2 pegs, however, the rule is that a player may play 2 pegs if and only if neither of them form a link. Otherwise you may only play ONE peg if it forms a link. The players would try to create POTENTIAL links but maximize their opportunities but at some point the player would have to know when they should "pounce" and play only ONE piece so that they could form links and block opponent. Form link too soon and opponent might overpower you with having more pegs but if you wait too long your opponent will just wall you off and your extra pegs won't help much and they will win so you have to time it right.

[@rueme4228]

Red twixt… or Black twixt?

[@connorclouse321]

The game, Twixt doesn't exist anymore.

[@ThatIsALakeSir]

@@connorclouse321it still does exist

[@CathodeRayKobold]

I would have assumed the links would have a length of 5, which would allow them to link straights OR diagonals via the 3-4-5 rule.

[@Julio974]

That reminds me a lot of PÜNCT, you should probably make a series on the seven GIPF project games

[@UnformedPond416]

“The rules are the same as regular UNO except for these changes:”

[@EdKolis]

Wow, I never thought I'd see this game anywhere! Just some random old game my dad has lying around... And you even have the same edition he has! Or was it so unpopular there was only one edition?

[@bbzabstractgames]

There are multiple editions, not only one. I know at least 4.

[@-_Nuke_-]

So that's kind of a simpler version of go :P

[@NoNameAtAll2]

more mindbendy, but easier when understood

[@-_Nuke_-]

@@NoNameAtAll2 yes! indeed!

[@bbzabstractgames]

No link. Go is a territory game, TwixT is a connection game. This makes these two games really different.

[@dirkkrohn1907]

I seem to remember seeing this game growing up. Not sure if I'm right about that or not.

[@BowlofColdSoup]

I honestly though the corners were there so that you could expand the game with a 2x2 or cross grid (1 top, 3 center, 1 bottom)

[@Penguinmanereikel]

Doesn't the first player have an advantage?

[@bbzabstractgames]

We play this with swap rule, so no.

[@Penguinmanereikel]

@@bbzabstractgames swap rule?

[@bbzabstractgames]

@@Penguinmanereikel after the very first move played by player one, player two decide with which color he gonna play this game. Also called the pie rule because it's the best way to split a cake for two children, first child cut the cake ine two parts, second child takes the part he wants. It's used in many abstract games to equilibrate the game.

[@drakebalzer3950]

​@@bbzabstractgamesBut the color doesn't matter?

[@bbzabstractgames]

@@drakebalzer3950 of course it matters, but let say red play first, so player one put a red peg, then player two decides if he plays as red or as black. In both cases it is of course black to play now.

[@MiekuahProductions]

Can you do the UNO show no mercy, pls?

[@connorclouse321]

Let them choose what how to video they want to do, please.

[@scorpionplays21]

Nice it looks luke battleship but without ships

[@patriciau6277]

I haven’t seen this game in since the 70s

[@agentcairney1802]

We got a brutal version of uno

[@alansuleyman3651]

This is like hex from 51 worldwide games

[@jonathanbush6197]

Hex was known to the inventor, Alex Randolph, when he created Twixt. Now this is a genre of more than a dozen abstract games called connection games.

[@dojelnotmyrealname4018]

Why are there holes in the corners if you're not allowed to play on them?

[@jonathanbush6197]

For the 3M set shown here, those aren't really holes; pegs will not fit in them. Avalon Hill and other manufacturers did have holes, which could be called an error on their part.

[@PhillipinesIsTheBestTheNumber1]

Cool Video

[@kmojz99]

Do Uno No Mercy next

[@cooltube2000]

I got a Wix ad. Coincidence?

[@dgarrard100]

"You may not play in the corners." Then why do they exist? 🤔 (I assume it's just easier to manufacture that way, but that still annoys me.)

[@WUDZ_780]

HERE BEFORE IT BLOWS UP

[@tranmanhuc6235]

the game will be more fun with corners allowed

[@feilkate5892]

Why is there holes in the corners if it's against the rules? Xd

[@KlaxontheImpailr]

I want a version that's made out of candy.

[@BobChess]

This is interesting

[@damie9412]

Nice

[@okamisansempai557]

Interesting game

[@ehq9826]

Hello

[@xiayang3727]

100th

[@aldyt1]

first

[@Robloxian975]

No