Strategy and Tactics
Seeing the Shapes
If you're having trouble seeing where to place buildings, use this guide as a reference:
Scoring Lots of Points
There is more than one way to win. Getting lots of cubes and houses in a single color will score more points than spreading evenly between all the colors. However, this is hard to do and easy to disrupt. Spreading evenly between all colors can make it easier to take advantage of scoring opportunities. For both strategies, you will need to place lots of cubes next to your lines.
Placing Lots of Cubes
Look for like-colored houses that are 2 spaces apart, especially those in a "diagonal" pattern like the blue houses below. Break up these patterns in your opponent’s territory.
Frustrating Your Opponent
Lock the houses your opponent needs by placing buildings beside them. Create inefficient patterns in their territory with lots of blank spaces, locked houses, and single cubes, as in the example below.
Taking Lots of Territory
Make "bridges" - disconnected lines you can connect later, either because you have 2 ways to connect, or because it is illegal for your opponent to draw a line between them. This lets you expand further than if you drew connected lines. Just make sure you have enough time to connect them later – a typical game will have 12-14 turns per player.
