Reversi help
The rules
Reversi is played on a board of 8 by 8 squares. Black moves first. On your turn, place a disc so that it traps one or more of your opponent’s discs in a straight line (across, up and down, or diagonally) between the new disc and another of yours; every trapped disc turns to your colour. If no move traps a disc, you pass. When neither side can move, the game ends and whoever has more discs wins.
Playing with the remote
| To | Samsung TV | Roku |
|---|---|---|
| Move the cursor | Arrow keys | Arrow keys |
| Place a disc | OK (Enter) | OK |
| Open the pause menu | Play/Pause | Play/Pause |
| Go back one screen | Return | Back |
| Leave the game | Return on the Home screen, then Exit | Back on the Home screen, then Exit |
Going back from a game takes you to the Home screen, which offers Resume game, so a slip of the thumb never loses a game. On Roku, the remote’s Home button closes the game at once. Number and colour keys are never needed.
On the board, the cursor is a yellow frame, the last disc placed has a red dot, and pale dots show where you can play while Hints is on.
What you can play
- Play vs computer: choose an opponent, from Beginner to Expert. You play Black. The game starts on the opponent you played last.
- Two players: two people on one TV, passing the remote. Black starts.
- Puzzles: endings where exactly one move wins, played against a perfect opponent. Solved puzzles are marked.
- History: your finished games, newest first. Select one to see its final board.
Settings
- Hints: show the moves you can make. On at first.
- Sound: the sounds of discs being placed and turned.
- Clear data: delete your game history and puzzle progress from this TV. Your settings stay.
- Share anonymous usage and crash reports: see below.
- Anonymous ID: the first 8 characters of this TV’s anonymous install ID, for example
9F1C2A7B. The About screen shows it too. - Reset anonymous ID: replace the ID with a new one. Reports sent from then on cannot be linked to the old ID.
Usage and crash reports, in plain words
When sharing is on, the game notes a few things as you play and sends them to us when the TV is online: which version of the game and which TV model and software it runs on, when the game starts and stops and whether it crashed, which mode and opponent or puzzle you played and how each game ended, which settings you changed, how long the computer took to move, and the details of any error. It never sends your name, anything you type, your TV’s serial number, an advertising ID or any other ID from the TV maker. We do not store your internet address.
We use these reports to find crashes on particular TVs, to notice when a TV software update breaks the game, and to know how many people play and what they play. The game works the same with sharing off.
To turn sharing off, open Settings and switch off Share anonymous usage and crash reports. Nothing more is sent, and anything not yet sent is deleted from the TV. Your anonymous ID stays visible in Settings, so you can still ask us to delete what was sent before.
The full details, including how long we keep reports, are in the privacy policy.
Deleting what was sent
Send a privacy or data request with the 8 characters from Settings or About (choose “Privacy or data request” as the type), or email [email protected] with those characters. We then delete every report from that ID. If you also want future reports kept apart from the old ones, use Reset anonymous ID after sending the request.
Something is not working
The game’s Help screen has a QR code. Scan it with your phone to open the feedback form with your game version and TV model already filled in. You can also write to [email protected].