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Slime Trail
Inventor: Bill Taylor,
1992
Ranks: Eight by Eight
Sowing: Single lap
Region: New Zealand

Slime Trail was invented by Bill Taylor (New Zealand) in 1992. It was the first game with "shared" sowing that leaves a common track.

On January 12, 2008, the game was implemented by Arty Sandler on igGamecenter.

Rules

The game is played on a NxM rectangle of squares. Each player has a goal square in one corner of the board, diagonally opposite to his opponent's goal square.

The first player places a piece on any square except the goal squares (or "targets").

Then the pie rule is used to determine who plays next.

After that a player moves the piece to an orthogonally adjacent square, leaving a token (e.g. a Go stone) on the square he vacates.

It is not permitted to visit a square twice.

The player who reaches his goal square first wins.

Variants

Chess King Slime Trail

The piece may move like the king in the game of Chess.

Hex Slime Trail

Slime Trail can also be played on a rhombus board instead of a rectangular one. According to Dave Boll the targets are best in the obtuse corners, since having them in the acute corners easily result in draws.

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Copyright

© Ralf Gering
Under the CC by-sa 2.5 license.

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