Hive Pocket Tutorial and Two Playthroughs

Hive Pocket is like playing a game of Chess using a bag of bugs. It's an awesome two-player game that you can take anywhere, and play indoors or outdoors. This is a quick tutorial, and two playthroughs (the first ended up in a draw, so we just played again, since it's such a quick game)
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[@TSTEINN]

Organized information with no nonsense. Very well done and thank you.

[@LucasGentry]

Thanks a lot for watching! It's a very fun game to play!

[@Mat-nh5fw]

Omg first time I see a tie in this game. I just ordered the pocket edition and the pillbug expansion, I'm so hyped!

[@christinehaslam9480]

What a gr8 video. Talking slow, like you did, was helpful & the slow game play, enabled me, to really get a feel for how the games played.
Well done👍

[@TheCagedRaven]

I bought the regular Hive game that doesn't come with the ladybug and the mosquito. I will definitely be buying these expansions, along with the pillbug. Thanks for this video; it was very helpful!

[@LucasGentry]

My pleasure! Thanks for watching!

[@argonwheatbelly637]

They're game-changers. It would be interesting for the manufacturer to produce the colony variant. I could see people carrying small bags filled with colony pieces. It's not necessary for a good game, but might makes things even more interesting.

[@TheCagedRaven]

@@argonwheatbelly637 Thanks for your reply. I now have all three of the expansion bugs. The kids I work with at the Boys and Girls Club love the game. In fact, it is so popular with them, that we now have two sets of the game.

[@TheRealGrandadNo1]

Forgive me if this is a naive question, but at around 10:21 what is to stop white placing a piece in the only space by the black queen bee and therefore surrounding it and claiming a win?

[@LucasGentry]

When you bring a new bug onto the board, it can only be placed touching only other bugs of the same color as it is. Thanks for asking!

[@TheRealGrandadNo1]

@@LucasGentry Lucas, of course, how remiss of me! Just learning the game and I forgot the first rule. Thank you so much for posting such an excellent and eloquently narrated video. Brilliant stuff!

[@matthiasstaber9216]

I thought you are only allowed to move your bugs a f t e r you placed your queen??? Not sure though

[@LucasGentry]

I didn't realize that. Thanks for the correction!

[@DanielsWorking]

Love this!! Very helpful thank you 😊 going to be taking this on a backpacking trip through chile

[@lovejunkie02]

At 10:36 you say that your queen is still trapped but is she not able to slide out? The rules about sliding out of spots feels tricky to me. It’s easy to see if one is able to slide in but does that mean one can move out if it can physically slide out even if it has to rotate to one side?

[@LucasGentry]

I believe I just meant that I had to use my turn to get the other bug out of the way, so I couldn't move my queen. If it was my turn and the board was like that, I could have slid my queen out of danger (or at least into a position of slightly less danger).
That being said, hex don't rotate to get them out, they just slide or jump.

[@kosterix123]

you can play the AI on android for free, it's pretty good.

[@rohanmegahey1250]

Hi there,
What happens if both opponents bees are covered by a beetle and surrounded fully by other bugs. It would get to the point where no one could move at all? Is their rules to prevent this?

[@LucasGentry]

Well, if both queen bees are surrounded (like at 14:02 here), the game ends in a draw.

[@BealeBrothers]

Great job!

[@LucasGentry]

Thanks so much!

[@bupobm]

Thanks! Very helpful

[@mac2105]

Thanks really helpful and fun

[@Deborah544]

Thanks

[@LucasGentry]

My pleasure!

[@Jarmo60]

Draw?

[@LucasGentry]

Yes. A draw (also called a tie) means that we both won or both lost at the same time (in other contexts, it could mean we both had the same score, if it was a scoring game)

[@aviscquinn1]

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