OCTI for Kids is a simplification of the game OCTI, that presents players with a trade-off between moving and building.
The idea behind OCTI is to create a simple game that nonetheless gives computer programs such as Zillions of Games a hard time. OCTI for Kids is much easier on both humans and computers.

This implementation doesn't play a great game of OCTI, but perhaps that's the point. It's fun for kids, and it's excellent for play over the internet.
There's one issue when playing over the 'net: one player must click the 'flip board' option. So all's well when everyone keeps their starting squares at the bottom.

 

Object: Capture all your opponent's pieces by jumping over them, or place one friendly piece on one of the opponent's starting squares.

Pieces can only move to an adjacent empty square in the direction of their prongs or by jumping over other pieces (friendly or enemy) to a vacant square on the other side. In this version, jumping automatically captures enemy pieces. Jumping is optional. You may not jump back-and-forth over the same square.

Rather than move a friendly piece, the player may insert a prong. Each player has a supply of 12 prongs, plus any that are captured.

Illustrated rules, examples and more details may be found on the website www.octi.net.

OCTI and OCTI for Kids are distributed by the Great American Trading Company.

 

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