Setup
An 8x8 board. Place four discs in the centre four squares in a diagonal pattern: two black on one diagonal, two white on the other. Black moves first.
CLASSIC GAMES
Play Reversi (Othello) online with friends
Also known as Othello
Reversi is the one game on this list where the physical table genuinely improves it: the discs are two-sided pieces you pick up and flip, so the satisfying part of the game is the part you actually do.
- Players
- 2 players
- Play time
- 10-20 minutes
- Learning curve
- One rule, and it is enough
- What you need
- A browser and a free account
How to play Reversi
Playing
A legal move places a disc so that it brackets one or more of your opponent's discs in a straight line — horizontally, vertically or diagonally — between the disc you just played and another of yours. Every bracketed disc flips to your colour. You must flip at least one disc, or the move is not legal.
If you have no legal move you pass, and your opponent plays again. That is the whole game.
Winning
Play continues until the board is full or neither player can move. Count discs: the colour with more on the board wins. Corners cannot ever be flipped, which is why they are worth far more than the disc count suggests at any point before the end.
What DiceyTable gives you for Reversi
DiceyTable gives you the physical game — the board, the pieces and real 3D physics — not a rules engine. Nobody's move is validated and no illegal move is blocked, so house rules and variants cost you nothing. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, it is free, and you share a link to bring people in.
- Reversi discsA genuinely two-sided disc — flip it to change colour.
- CounterFor keeping score if you play a match rather than one game.
Setup is manual: you place the board and pieces from the in-table object library, the same way you would unpack a box. Every player needs a free account — there is nothing to download on any device.
What it does not do
- The reversi board preset spawns as a plain board today — the 8x8 grid is not printed on it yet.
- No legal-move highlighting and no automatic flipping. Bracketed discs are flipped by hand, which is either the appeal or the drawback depending on your group.
- You and your friends enforce the rules between you, exactly as you would sitting at a real table.
Open a table and set up Reversi
Start a table, invite your group with a link, and place the pieces from the object library. Free, in the browser, with nothing to install.