Flip Discs
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Flip Discs is the black-and-white disc game played on an 8x8 board for generations: place a disc so it traps a line of your opponent's discs, and they all flip to your colour. The board can swing from one side to the other in a single move, so no lead is ever safe.
The rules take a minute to learn, and the game rewards patience and planning. Glowing dots show every legal move, flips ripple across the board in a wave, and taking a corner earns its own little celebration, making it friendly for newcomers and satisfying for experienced players.
How to play
- Place a disc on a square where it traps one or more of your opponent's discs in a straight line between it and another of your discs.
- Lines count in all eight directions, and every trapped disc flips to your colour at once.
- If you have no legal move, you pass and your opponent plays again.
- The game ends when neither player can move, and whoever has more discs wins.
- Corners can never be flipped back, which makes them the most valuable squares on the board.
Controls
On a phone or tablet
Tap one of the glowing dots to place your disc there.
On a computer
Click a glowing dot with the mouse to play that move.
Game modes
Vs computer
Easy, medium and hard opponents weigh mobility, corners and stable discs. Hard plays the final moves perfectly.
Two players
Play a friend on the same device, taking turns.
Online
Start a private table and share the code or link so a friend can join from their own phone or computer.
Puzzles
A ladder of challenges: flip at least a set number of discs in one move, or win an endgame against a perfect defender.
Daily puzzle
A new puzzle every day with a streak to keep going.
Tips
- Do not chase the most flips early; having fewer discs but more possible moves is often stronger.
- Avoid the squares right next to an empty corner, since they tend to hand the corner to your opponent.
- Try to leave your rival with few legal moves so they are forced into bad squares.
- Edges are good once you can connect them to a corner, as those discs become hard to flip.
- In the endgame, count carefully: the last few moves often decide the winner.
About the game
The disc-flipping game grew from a nineteenth-century board game and became a worldwide favourite in the twentieth. Flip Discs keeps that classic rule set intact and focuses on clear feedback, with legal-move dots, flip animations and a board that shakes on big turns.
On a phone the board fills the width of the screen in portrait, with squares large enough to tap accurately; on desktop it sits centred with room for the score. Coins from wins and puzzles unlock new boards and disc sets.
Questions
- Is Flip Discs free?
- Yes, you can play it free in any modern browser.
- How strong is the hard computer?
- Hard searches deeply and solves the endgame exactly, so it is a real challenge for experienced players.
- Can I play a friend who is somewhere else?
- Yes. Create an online private table and send them the code or link.
