Resolve
BGG rank
BGG #29,200
BGG rating
5.1

Resolve

2020

Rules assistance for Resolve

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 2–200 min
  • 2+

Rules assistant for Resolve

For 2 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Resolve is a board game released in 2020 for 2 players, 2–200 minutes per game, and ages 2 and up. It was designed by Alek Erickson and its main mechanics are Square Grid and Connections.

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About the game

Resolve is a connection game for two players, Black and White, with sufficient black and white stones. Starting with Black, players take turns placing and swapping stones on the intersecting points of a square grid (with side lengths of either 5, 9, 13, or 19) which is initially empty. Passing is forbidden. Same-colored stones with orthogonal adjacency are connected. The game is over when a player wins by connecting their designated sides of the board with a single group of connected stones of their color, at any time during their turn or their opponent's turn. Cutting stones are four stones in the following generic crosscut configuration: OX XO On your turn, place a stone of your color on an empty point, if possible. If that created a crosscut, swap the placed stone with different adjacent enemy stones that share a crosscut with it, until that stone is no longer part of a crosscut. If you haven't placed a stone this turn, then instead choose a friendly stone in a crosscut and resolve as above. —description from the designer

Designers

Publishers

  • (Self-Published)

Questions and answers

Resolve supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.