2 players
Scaffold
- Game family
- connection
Overview
Scaffold is a drawless square connection game invented by Andrew Lannan in 2022 with inspiration and input from the designers on Boardgamegeek.com's Abstract Game forum. Luis Bolaños Mures helped clarify the presentation of the rules. It is similar to Bill Taylor's Quadrex, but was discovered independently.
Source rules (English)
Definitions Group: Either a single stone (a group of one) or any number of stones of the same color connected through a continuous series of orthogonal adjacencies. Rules Scaffold is a drawless connection game played on the intersections of a square grid using stones (as in Go). Black is trying to connect N-S edges of the board, White E-W with an orthogonally connected group. First player places a single black stone on any grid intersection, after which the second player decides which color they will play (pie rule). Players then alternate taking turns. On your turn, place a stone of your color on an empty point. Then, if possible, place a stone of your color on an empty point that is orthogonally adjacent to two groups of your color, and keep making such placements until no more are possible.