Othello

This is Go for people who can't figure out Go, and people who like to pretend they can play chess.  A simple strategy game, that is grossly overrated by its adherants.

I used to own this game. Brings a Far Side comic to mind...the one that shows a girl sticking a pencil up her nose and is captioned, "Give Irene a pencil and she'll stay busy for hours". This is a game with one strategy and the only way to enjoy it is to find people who have never played the game and don't tell them what the strategy is.Slightly less challenging that Jacks. Far less challenging than Checkers, but more challenging than sucking juice through a straw...

An incredibly strategic game. www.othelloclub.ning.com

The good thing about Othello is that it takes just minutes to learn and almost everyone can learn it. It's all logical with no luck unless you're a beginner and things just fall into place. There's so many levels of play as well. Overall, a can't go wrong game for folks that like to use their brains.

I bought this toy as a birthday gift for my son. My grandmother had given me this game as a child and I was happy to find that it was still around and to pass on the enjoyment of it on to my children. I think the toy is both fun and durable. It promotes strategic thinking and is generally a good 2-player game.

This game is a great educational game. Also alot of fun. Given the price what should have i expected regarding quality. The material is cheap plastic, cheap felt, and NO rollover cover to hold the pieces in their slots. It's also hard to place a piece down on the board or into the side slot. It's like they asked some chinese company to design the SMALLEST amount of plastic in use to make this game as cheaply as possible. I don't expect this to last for years to come! Either way if you want Othello, I highly recommend you search for the more durable but also more expensive version.

Lately we have been on a very competitive 2 player strategy game kick... and I purchased this game as an alternative to Scrabble and Boggle (my favorite 2 player word games, which I usually win!). I found Othello easy to learn, but man is it hard to master! I still haven't won yet, though not for want of trying! The difficutly of each game will depend on the strategic skill of your opponent, and there definitely are some good (and bad) strategies to use. Even so, this would be a game two children (or an adult and a child) could enjoy playing due to its simplistic rules. For me, it's been a good lesson on how to lose gracefully. :)

I remember playing this game when I was a kid. Even though I always wanted to own it I never got around to buying it until recently. Recently this game poped into my mind, and I knew that I had to try to find it, since I remember it being a ton of fun when I was a child. In the 21st century there is a lot of electronic games and party games available to buy. The classic's seem to be hard to find now days so when I find one of the classic games that I remember playing as a kid I usually buy it. I remember doing some christmas shopping this past holiday season and I remember seeing othello in the store. When I went back to the same store looking for othello it was no longer there. I put it out of my mind until recently when I was thinking about all of the fun classic games I remembered growing up. When you look at this game you don't think that it would be fun, however it is very fun and also can be very challenging. As many others have said this is one of those games that is easy to lea... Read more