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The Most Popular Starting Position

BLOB is a perfect-information, abstract strategy game for two players played on a hexagonal board. Each player controls 15 pieces of their color (blue or red). On their turn, a player can move one piece onto an adjacent empty space or displace an opponent's piece. A piece pushed off the board reappears on the opposite side. The goal is to arrange all of one's pieces into a single contiguous group. A position cannot be repeated by the same player between turns.

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The Most Popular Starting Position

BLOB is a perfect-information, abstract strategy game for two players played on a hexagonal board. Each player controls 15 pieces of their color (blue or red). On their turn, a player can move one piece onto an adjacent empty space or displace an opponent's piece. A piece pushed off the board reappears on the opposite side. The goal is to arrange all of one's pieces into a single contiguous group. A position cannot be repeated by the same player between turns.

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BLOB

A perfect-information, abstract strategy game for two players. The game


is played on a base 4 hexagon-tesselation with 15 blue pieces and 15
red pieces.
The board begins with the pieces oriented in a radially symmetric
fashion. It is best to have pieces of a given color as spread out as
possible from one another.

The most popular starting


position.

This one is also quite popular.

Each turn consists of two steps. On a given step a player may move a
piece of their color onto an adjacent space. If the destination space is
already occupied then the occupying piece will be "pushed" to the next
adjacent space (displacing the next piece in the line, in the same fashion,
if it is an unbroken line of occupied spaces).

Here red moves to an empty space


so no other pieces are affected.

Here the blue piece displaces the piece


occupying its destination space.

If a piece on the edge of the board must be moved off of the board
then it will be placed onto the space on the opposite side of the board
along that line of movement (displacing any occupying piece in the
same fashion)

The blue piece marked with yellow


demonstrates this phenomenon.

A board position (defined as it's state between turns, not steps) may
never be repeated BY THE SAME PLAYER.

Here blue has undone reds turn but notice that the
board position has not repeated. This is totally fine.

continued...

2
1

Notice that by undoing reds second step with his first step, blue has
repeated the boards position from halfway through reds turn. Since
this uses the boards state between turns its ok, but now blue could
not undo reds first step withought repeating the
top-left position.

The win condition is to arrange all the pieces of one's own color into a
single contiguous group.

Red has won!

Blue has won!

If both colors have a single group after a turn then whoever played the
turn is the winner.
A player may pass one or both steps of their turn (but shouldn't ever
want to).
If the player who moves first gets to use both steps on that first turn they
will have a substantial advantage. The game is more balanced if the
player to move first only gets to use one step on that first turn with the
game played normally from then on.

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