Bug

Bug:Go::Hive:Chess.

Players: 2.
Uses an hexagonal grid and two colors of stones.
Game by Nick Bently.

A hex grid with side-length 3 is recommended. This game can be played with Hive pieces.

Winning

You win if you cannot place a stone. This happens if the board is full of your bugs.

Bugs are the name for connected groups of allied stones. (Hex board, so no diagonals.)

Grow - Place a stone on the hexagonal board to either:
- Start a new bug
- Grow an existing bug
  - You can’t merge bugs
  - You can’t grow a bug larger than the largest bug on the board
Eat - If your bug is adjacent to an enemy bug of the same shape (up to reflection/rotation), then your bug eats the other one.
- Remove the eaten bug from the board.
Bonus Grow - grow any bugs that ate by 1 stone.
- This time, you can grow past the current maximum size
- Still no mergers allowed.
  - If a merger would be forced by this growth, then the bug doesn’t get eaten.
- Growth can trigger another Eat, which triggers growth, etc.