Paintbucket

Paintbucket is a flipping game of elimination for two players, White and Black. In this game, you flip groups of opposing pieces until only yours remain.

Inventors: Michael Amundsen, Alek Erickson
Year: 2022

See BoardGameGeek: Paintbucket. Default 12×12 square.

DEFINITION: A group is a maximal set of orthogonally adjacent like-colored pieces.
SETUP: Set up a chessboard using Reversi pieces in a checkered pattern.
GAMEPLAY: On your turn, flip an enemy group.
OBJECTIVE: Eliminate the enemy pieces.

size-16.

• Current engine version: 20250330 (2025-03-30). On Abstract Play since 2025-04-05.

• https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/362682/paintbucket

• https://ericksonlaboratory.neocities.org/Abstracts/Paintbucket/