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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A board game played by two players on a board of 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid, with 64 playing pieces that are black on one side and white on the other. Each player alternates laying a piece on the board, and if a player places a piece so that one or more of an opponent's pieces lie between that piece and another of that player's pieces, that player flips the opponent's piece or pieces to that player's color. After all pieces have been laid, the player with the most pieces showing his or her color wins.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as reversis.
  • noun A modern game played by two persons with sixty-four counters. differently colored on opposite sides, on a board of sixty-four squares.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A strategy game for two players, areas of the board being captured by surrounding rows of the opponent's pieces with one's own.
  • noun The card game reversis.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Originally a proprietary name.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

So named because the playing pieces have two differently colored sides, which are reversed when captured to indicate that they are now the capturer's.

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  1. Othello

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