Mathematical_Recreations-Kraitchik-2e

Games 281
6. REVERSI. This is played on a board of 102 cells and begins
like Go. Whenever one player can surround a set of
hostile pieces lying in any orthogonal or diagonal line of
consecutive cells by putting a piece of his own at either end,
the pieces thus captured are replaced by his own. The winner
is the one who has the greater number of pieces on the
board at the end.
7. JINX. This game was contributed by Mr. Ling. It is
played on a table of thirteen columns of numbers arranged
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 910
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5
1 2 3 4
FIGURE 151. Jinx Board.
as in Figure 151. Pieces are placed on the 1 and on any other
numbers desired in the first (uppermost) line. Pieces are
then placed on the same numbers in any other desired lines.
(For example, a player may select the numbers 1,3,8,12 and
the rows 1,2,4. Then the numbers 1,3,8, 12 in the first and
second rows, and the numbers 1, 3, 8 in the fourth row are
covered.)
When the pieces have been placed we play with them as
follows: If a column contains an even number of pieces,
half of them are removed and the other half are put in the
next column to the right. If the column contains an ond