Watch “How To Play Hive!,” a how-to-play guide for Hive from The Game Vault on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by The Game Vault on YouTube:
Learn how to play Hive, the award-winning abstract strategy game with no board! 🐜🐝🐞
In this video, I’ll walk you through everything you need to know:
What pieces do and how they move
The rules for placing and connecting tiles
How to trap your opponent’s Queen Bee to win
Key tips and strategies to get you started
Whether you’re brand new to Hive or brushing up before your next match, this guide will have you playing with confidence in minutes.
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Hive is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 26 reviews, 24 how-to-play guides, 8 recorded sessions, and 2 other videos.
2 players
20 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Hive, from BoardGameGeek:
Hive is a strategic game for two players that is not restricted by a board and can be played anywhere on any flat surface. Hive is made up of twenty two pieces, eleven black and eleven white, resembling a variety of creatures each with a unique way of moving.
With no setting up to do, the game begins when the first piece is placed down. As the subsequent pieces are placed this forms a pattern that becomes the playing surface (the pieces themselves become the board). Unlike other such games, the pieces are never eliminated and not all have to be played. The object of the game is to totally surround your opponent's queen, while at the same time trying to block your opponent from doing likewise to your queen. The player to totally surround his opponent's queen wins the game.
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