Gliti is an abstract strategy game for two players. The goal is to create a row of five pieces of your color. You will need a checkerboard and twelve pieces per player.
The first player places one of their pieces in any square, and placement alternates until the second player decides to introduce movement. Players choose between movement or placement after that point.
Movement allows a player to move one of their pieces to any unoccupied neighboring square. The player also has the option to shift a row of up to three pieces one square orthogonally or diagonally along the line of the row as long as no piece blocks the movement. The row must include a piece of the moving player’s color.
For example, in the picture below white has decided to move the row to the right.
Players cannot move a group of pieces back into a position that would recreate the board on the previous turn. In the example above, black could not immediately shift all three pieces to the left. Black could, however, move the two leftmost pieces to the left.
If the players place all of their pieces without a movement turn, the second player takes another turn after placing their last piece.
After the last piece has been placed on the board, players continue to move either single pieces or rows.
The first player to create a row of five pieces of their color wins.
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The game is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
