Uisge
Uisge, also known as Skorpion, is a strategy board game created by and published in 1984 by Hexagames in which two players attempt to be the first to flip all their playing stones on a rectangular grid.
Gameplay
Uisge is played on a rectangular game board consisting of 42 squares. The game uses twelve round stone game pieces, divided equally between white and black. Each piece has one blank side and one with a crown. To begin, all stones are placed on the board with the blank side facing up. The player controlling the white pieces takes the first turn, followed by the player controlling the black pieces, as in chess.On a player's turn, a stone can be moved in one of two ways:
- Jump: A piece may jump over a neighbouring one or an opponent's piece in a horizontal or vertical direction, provided the landing space is empty. The jumping stone is flipped, making a blank stone a crown stone and a crown stone a blank stone.
- Move: Only crown pieces may move. It may be moved to an empty adjacent empty field in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. The crown stone is not turned over.
The object of the game is to flip all ones stones to the crown side before the opponent.