How to play Reversi
Reversi is a two-player game on an 8 by 8 board with discs that are black on one side and white on the other. You start with two discs each in the middle, and Black moves first. The player with more discs when the game ends wins.
- Making a move: place a disc on an empty square so that it traps one or more straight lines of the other colour's discs between your new disc and another disc of yours.
- Flipping: every disc you trap flips to your colour. Lines can run sideways, up and down or diagonally, and several lines can flip with one move.
- Where you can play: only on squares that flip at least one disc. The glowing dots on the board show every legal square.
- Passing: if you have no legal move, your turn is skipped. The game ends when neither player can move, which is usually when the board is full.
- Corners: a disc in a corner can never be flipped, so corners are the best squares on the board. The squares next to a corner are risky.
Playing Reversi on boardflix
Play the computer on Easy, Medium or Hard, pass and play with a friend on the same screen, or press Create Room to play online with a code. Discs flip with a ripple and a sound, the last move is marked with a gold dot, and you can switch the move hints off once you know the game.