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About this game

Those that know the game of Uckers need read no further, this is what you've been looking for. Six offs, mixiblobs and all bits in 8 piece-ings are here!

Select advanced rules like suck backs and blow backs if you want to play with them. Everyone plays Uckers slightly differently so select your favourite rules!

If you're new to the game then learn in tutorial mode one of the most addictive board games ever made. You play with 2 colours each and aim to block your opponent from moving around the board by 'blobing up' whilst still getting your bits around the board first.

Enjoy the satisfaction of hacking off a maxi-mixi-blob and sending all your opponents bits home while you press on to victory.

Features:
• No Ads
•. Play online with friends or against the computer
• Tutorial mode teaches you how to play.
• Play doubles with 4 players
•. Social features - add recent players as friends and upload your profile photo
•. Get promoted and earn achievements as you play
•. 4 leaderboards to showcase your skills
• Select which rules you prefer to play with, eg. suck-backs.
• Submit feedback at www.playuckers.com for the features that you want added.

Getting Started

Uckers is a 2 or 4-player game played against either a computer or online opponent. Each player plays with tokens or ‘bits’ of either red and yellow or green and blue. The aim is to move your bits clockwise around the board and onto the respective final squares before your opponent does.

You’ll need a 6 to get one of your bits out of the home squares and then you’re free to move them around the board using one or both of the dice you roll. Each time you roll the dice, you must use both dice to move your bits if you can.

Important things to remember

If you roll a 6 then you get another go. Rolling a double also gets another go if you have that rule turned on in settings. However, rolling a double 6 does not get 2 extra goes.

In the event that progression is not possible with the resultant of both dice, then the value of the highest scoring dice is to be used, unless progression is blocked. If bits cannot be moved with the value of either die, then that's the end of your turn.

Hacking off

If your bit lands on a square with one of your opponent’s bits on then you take (‘hack off’) their bit and send it back home.

Blobbing up

If you get 2 bits of the same colour on one square (a ‘blob’) then your opponent cannot get past or hack off these bits. This is the best way to slow down your opponent and stop them getting round the board. However, if you have 2 or more bits of differing colours on one square then this is known as a mixi-blob. Your opponent can hack off all the bits in a mixi blob if one of their bits lands on that square and your opponent can pass these squares with impunity.

Sixing-Off

You can get your bits past a blob by landing one of your bits on the square immediately behind the blob and rolling a six on the first roll of your turn. You can then elect to ‘six-off’ the blob by tapping the ‘6’ over the square in question. You’ll need to roll a number of sixes in succession greater than the number of bits in the blob (plus one extra six if your bit needs to get out of home as well). This will then allow you to send your opponent’s bits all back home whilst moving one of your bits forward onto the square.

Finishing

Once one of your bits gets towards the end of the board, when it is on those squares of its own colour, it is safe and cannot be hacked-off by your opponent.

The first player to get all their bits onto the final squares with an exact dice roll is the winner. If this is done before their opponent gets any bit round the board, it is known as an eight-piecing. If the winner gets all their bits in before their opponent has got any bits out into play then it is known as an eight piece in the pen.

Additional rules can be selected, happy Uckers playing!

Ratings and reviews

I love Uckers, dislike the dice algorithm. It is frustrating, the algorithm gives yellow and red 20-30% more 6's than green and blue. This has consistently happened in all the games I have played as either colours. It completely skews the advantage in favour of yellow and red which takes strategy out of the game, fighting an uphill battle from the start. Developers can talk all day about the dice being random, it's a lie. Need to investigate your 'random' dice.

Enjoyable gameplay experience, very good intro to any not well versed on the finer points of the game. It's clearly a well constructed game, very user friendly and intuitive. However, to unlock all features, you will need to pay a monthly subscription of £4.99. Now, personally, this put me off, as I'm not likely to play this game all that frequently to justify £60 a year. If there was a one-off app purchase option to unlock unlimited *OFFLINE* play, then I would consider that.

Algorithm needs looking at!! Have played several games were opponents have thrown 14 sixes in a row to knock 3 blobs off in 3 consecutive turns! The only option players have is to block the other player - there is no reporting system to highlight cheats! Would be great if you could sort this issue out!! Also lost 1000pts when my opponent 'timed out' during a match!! I recently received a rather aggressive e-mail demanding I either remove my comment or change the rating!

What’s new

Advanced rules now incorporate Blow-backs and Suckbacks. Some minor bug fixes.