X-or is a dice game and a board game at the same time. The roll of a dice determines the moving properties of the pieces and their mutual connections determine the layout of the board. However, luck has very little to do with success in this game, the most important features of a X-or player is non-linear strategic thinking.
Rules:
The players have 6 dice each. Start in the position shown in the picture. Dark begins and then the players alternate.
The black dots are shields and a dice can’t be taken from this direction.
The white circles show the direction in which a dice may move, or take the opponent’s dice.
The lines and circles are also connectors. A dice may move over several dice if the lines are connected.
In every move, a player has 3 options:
1. Move one dice one step as the white circles indicate.
2. Move over other dice as the connectors indicate
3. Roll a dice and put it back on its original position but twisted in any of 4 directions.
A dice may not move so that it’s no longer “connected” to the other dice.
The object of the game is to take all the opponent’s dice.
A player who can’t move loses the game.
Biography:
Following a career in electronic music with more than 350 records released within numerous genres, Hakan Lidbo is exploring new ideas with the same inexhaustible energy, within interactive art, games, innovations, architecture, society, media, design, and robotics. He founded Rumtiden Idea Lab in Stockholm Sweden, where his team explore the intersection between new art forms, science, and society.
