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

See Nick Bentley: Shifty and BoardGameGeek.

Larger board (size-13).

• 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.

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