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Jun 14, 2024·How to play·03:13·0·Watch on YouTube

How to play the game of Resolve

Alek Erickson

Alek Erickson

Watch “How to play the game of Resolve,” a how-to-play guide for Resolve from Alek Erickson on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Alek Erickson on YouTube:

Resolve is a connection game for two players, Black and White, with sufficient black and white stones. Starting with Black, players take turns placing and swapping stones on the intersecting points of a square grid (with side lengths of either 5, 9, 13, or 19) which is initially empty. Passing is forbidden. Same-colored stones with orthogonal adjacency are connected. The game is over when a player wins by connecting their designated sides of the board with a single group of connected stones of their color, at any time during their turn or their opponent's turn. Cutting stones are four stones in the following generic crosscut configuration: OX XO On your turn, place a stone of your color on an empty point, if possible. If that created a crosscut, swap the placed stone with different adjacent enemy stones that share a crosscut with it, until that stone is no longer part of a crosscut. If you haven't placed a stone this turn, then instead choose a friendly stone in a crosscut and resolve as above. Link to the BGG page: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/314106/resolve Song: "Stay Equipped" by Hootie/Razors razors.bandcamp.com

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Resolve

Resolve

2020·Alek Erickson

2 players
2 - 200 min

About Resolve, from BoardGameGeek:

Resolve is a connection game for two players, Black and White, with sufficient black and white stones. Starting with Black, players take turns placing and swapping stones on the intersecting points of a square grid (with side lengths of either 5, 9, 13, or 19) which is initially empty. Passing is forbidden. Same-colored stones with orthogonal adjacency are connected. The game is over when a player wins by connecting their designated sides of the board with a single group of connected stones of their color, at any time during their turn or their opponent's turn. Cutting stones are four stones in the following generic crosscut configuration: OX XO On your turn, place a stone of your color on an empty point, if possible. If that created a crosscut, swap the placed stone with different adjacent enemy stones that share a crosscut with it, until that stone is no longer part of a crosscut. If you haven't placed a stone this turn, then instead choose a friendly stone in a crosscut and resolve as above. -description from the designer

Designer

Alek Erickson

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Network and Route BuildingGrid Movement
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