1. To start you need a standard grid gameboard that is split into 8 rows of 8 squares.

2. There are a total of 64 game pieces each player having 32 pieces. Originally each piece had a different color on each side ( White and black ). If you are using beads, you can adapt the rules.

3. One player is reffered to as white and the other black. White moves first.

1. A piece has to be placed so that it and a comrade enclose a line of one or more pieces of the opponent. A line of enclosed pieces may run in any direction - horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

2. The enclosed pieces are then captured, by turning them over to show the player's own colour.

3. It is possible to enclose two or more lines of enemy pieces simultaneously - all of the enclosed pieces are turned over.

4. If a player can't legally place a piece, he misses his turn and ends the game.

5. The gameboard of Reversi

1. The game is over when neither one of the player's can place a piece.

2. This can happen when the board is full or the pieces are all of one colour, so neither player can surround his opponent.

3. The winner of the game is the player who has the most pieces showing his colour at the end of the game.

4. If both players have the same amount of pieces showing their color, then the game is draw.

1. In the beginning phase of the game, the 4 central squares must be filled. White places a piece in one of them, white face upwards. Black places a piece in another of them, black face upwards.

2. White and black then again place 2 further pieces in the remaining central squares in the same manner. Play then passes to the main phase, white taking the first turn.

3. In his turn a player places a single piece, with his own color upwards.

1. The game Reversi was invented in the year 1883 by either of two Englishmen (each claimed the other was a fraud), Lewis Waterman or John W. Mollett (Maybe even earlier by someone else entirely), and gained considerable popularity in England at the end of the 19th century.

2. In 1893, the well-known German games publisher Ravensburger started producing the game as one of its first titles. Two 18th-century European books dealing with a game that may or may not be Reversi are mentioned on page fourteen of the Spring 1989 Othello Quarterly, and there has been speculation, so far without documentation, that the game originated much earlier than we thought.

3. In 1968 the game was reinvented in Japan, a game named Othello was created. Since then it has gained immense popularity, starting in Japan.