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====== Shifty ======

A connection game: either place a piece orthogonally adjacent to a friendly piece, or move a piece with a chess-queen’s move to a cell orthogonally adjacent to exactly one friendly piece. Crosscuts are illegal. Orthogonal or diagonal connection of your two sides wins.

Inventor: Nick Bentley

===== Rules =====

See [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151224161649/http://nickbentleygames.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/new-game-shifty/|Nick Bentley: Shifty]] and [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124313/shifty|BoardGameGeek]].


===== Variants =====

==== 13×13 board ====

Larger board (''size-13'').

===== Further details =====

==== Version history ====

  * Current engine version: ''20250525'' (2025-05-25). On Abstract Play since 2024-09-05.
  * From ''20240831'': only stones orthogonally adjacent to friends may move, and the destination must not sit next to extra friends.

==== Links ====

  * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20151224161649/http://nickbentleygames.wordpress.com/2012/05/01/new-game-shifty/]]
  * [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/124313/shifty]]