Quoridor is a 2–4-player abstract strategy game designed by Mirko Marchesi and published by both Gigamic Games and Great American Trading Company. An abstract strategy game is a board game with perfect information, no chance, and (usually) two players. ...
Diagram 1: This is the starting position in a 4 player game. Green and Orange are not used in a 2 player game.
Diagram 2: The wall positioned at 'A' is legal. The wall positioned at 'B' is illegal.
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Rules of the game
Object
Be the first player to move a pawn to the opposite side of the gameboard.
Equipment
1 9×9 gameboard with 81 squares
4 pawns (different colors)
20 walls (the length of a wall is 2 squares)
Setup
The game starts with the pawns on the gameboard. (See Diagram 1)
The game starts with no walls on the gameboard.
In a 2-player game each player starts with 10 walls.
In a 4-player game each player starts with 5 walls.
Gameplay
On a turn a player may choose one of the following options:
Move the pawn.
Position a wall on the gameboard.
Movement
A pawn moves orthogonally one square.
If a pawn is adjacent to another pawn it can jump over the adjacent pawn.
If there is a wall or a second pawn behind the adjacent jumped pawn the jumping pawn can move to any square adjacent to the jumped pawn.
The official rules are ambiguous concerning the edge of the board.
A pawn cannot move through a wall.
A wall cannot be moved.
A pawn must be moved if a wall cannot be placed
Positioning a wall
Walls are positioned on the intersections of the gameboard.
Walls must be positioned so that it impedes movement from 4 squares. (See Diagram 2)
Walls must be positioned so that the entire wall is on the gameboard.
Walls cannot be positioned so that it makes it impossible for any of the pawns to reach the opposite side.
Walls cannot be positioned on an existing wall.
End of the game
The first player to reach the opposite side of the gameboard is the winner.
Miscellaneous
The original version of this game was published by Epta and is called Pinko Pallino. Pinko Pallino was only for 2 players and was played on an 11×11 gameboard with a total of 42 walls and slightly different rules.
External links
Quoridor at Gigamic
Quoridor at BoardGameGeek
Java implementation, including computer opponent
Papers on implementing Quoridor-playing algorithms
Quoridor is quite a complex game: Determining one's next move is nearly always non-trivial.
For example, while the number of moves to win is important in the last stages, the number of possible paths a player has seems to be a key success factor (the fewer possible paths the better).
Most people, including myself, initially look at Quoridor as a game that's going to be too simple to be fun, but that's just not the case.
Well, having played Quoridor solidly for the past few weeks, we can honestly say it's a classic-in-the-making, and it is so addictive you'll be dreaming about pawns, squares and fences every time you blink.
The basic premise of Quoridor is to get your pawn to the opposite side of an 81 square board before your opponent.
Quoridor is simple to play but difficult to master.
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