Tudor Bond

Tudor Bond is a connection game, somewhat similar to Hex, where the players try to connect their sides of the board by placing a line of their pieces. The board is a pattern of long and short rectangles based on the Tudor Bond brickwork pattern. Tudor Bond was published as a pen and pencil game in the May 2009 issue of Games magazine. The rules are: One player is red, the other blue. They take turns marking a space with their color. Red goes first. The objective is to connect the two sides of their color with an unbroken line of spaces marked in their color. There are short and long spaces on the board. The short spaces on the board have a special rule: if you mark off a short space and it is separated by an unclaimed short space from another short space you have marked, you get to mark the space in between with your color. If the space you are claiming is one unclaimed short space away from two of your claimed spaces (in other words, in the middle space), you get to claim both intervening spaces.