Your turn
A classic board duel of contagion, easy to grasp and devious to master. Two colours start in opposite corners of a 7×7 board. Move a piece one square and it clones, leaving a copy behind; move it two squares and it jumps. Either way, every enemy piece touching where you land flips to your colour at once — so a single move can swing a whole cluster. When the board fills up, whoever owns more pieces wins. Beat the AI again and again as it sharpens with every win.
The 7×7 board starts with two of your red pieces in two corners and two blue AI pieces in the others. You move first.
Tap one of your red pieces to select it. The squares you can move to light up: a green dot marks a near square (one step away in any direction, including diagonals) and a blue ring marks a far square (exactly two steps away). Tap one to move there.
A move to a near square is a CLONE — your piece stays put and a fresh copy appears on the new square, so you gain a piece. A move to a far square is a JUMP — the piece itself hops over, so your count stays the same. The cloning move is how you grow, so most of the time it is the stronger choice.
Wherever your piece lands, look at the eight squares around it: every blue piece in those squares instantly flips to red. That capture is the heart of the game, and a well-placed landing can convert several pieces at once.
If you have no legal move you pass, and so does the AI when stuck. The game ends when the board is full or neither side can move. Whoever owns more pieces wins. Win to extend your streak — each win makes the AI think harder.
Clone before you jump. A clone adds a piece while a jump only relocates one, so default to short, one-step moves and keep your jumps for when you specifically need to reach a far flip. Greedily jumping all over the board thins your own ranks.
Grab the corners. A piece in a corner can never be flipped from the outside on more than a couple of sides, so corners and edges are the safest real estate. Race the AI to claim them early and they become anchors you won't lose.
Watch what your landing hands back. Flipping three enemy pieces feels great, but if your new piece then sits next to several of the AI's other pieces, its very next move can flip your gains right back. Count the squares around your destination for both colours before you commit.
Don't over-extend near enemy clusters. A lone piece pushed deep into blue territory is bait — the AI will clone next to it and convert it. Advance in connected groups so that when the AI flips one of yours, you can flip it straight back on your turn.