Slideways
Slideways Rulebook
Table of Contents
Setup
Place the board between the 2 players. Each player chooses a color (either red or yellow).
Flip all the center 'tiles' to the blue color. Choose a player to go first.
3 Players
For three players, one player will play the blue side instead of the red or yellow, and you will set up the board as follows:
Flip the tiles to match this picture of the grid. The printed diagram shows the 4 x 4 grid of tiles with these colors, row by row:
- Row 1: red, blue, yellow, yellow
- Row 2: yellow, blue, red, blue
- Row 3: red, yellow, blue, red
- Row 4: blue, red, yellow, red
You are now ready to begin a three player game where one player is red, one player is yellow and the third is blue.
Now play the game as you would normally, choosing one player to start and having the others take turns.
Play
On your turn you may either slide one bar one space to the left or right.
OR flip one 'tile' to your color. However, you are NOT allowed to flip a 'tile' that your opponent just flipped.
IMPORTANT! When one player slides a row, the next player CANNOT immediately move it back and must wait until their next turn to slide that bar.
Each bar must remain connected to the board and cannot slide past a total of 3 spaces to the left or right.
Winning
The first player to get four of their color in a row WINS!
The printed sheet illustrates three kinds of four-in-a-row win:
- Horizontal Win: four of one color in a line across a single bar.
- Vertical Win: four of one color in a line down the columns of the board.
- Diagonal Win: four of one color in a line running diagonally across the bars.