Give 'N' Take

A board game on a jigsaw of 70 regions in 18 shapes. The 70 matching pieces are dealt at random, 35 to each side, and both hands are shown beside the board with a count per shape. On your turn you place one of your pieces on a free region of the same shape, and every neighbouring region your opponent holds turns to your colour. After 70 turns the regions are counted: in TAKE the most regions wins, in GIVE the fewest wins, and equal counts tie. Play against a friend or the computer, which can move first or second and plays either RANDOM or GREEDY. Regions you can play are shown white and the others grey, and captured regions turn over one by one.

Controls: The stick moves the cursor from region to region and a button places a piece. On the title, push up and down to choose, left, right or a button to change an option, and press a button on START GAME to begin.

ColecoVision version credited in the source to Claude (an AI made by Anthropic) for Amy Studio, in Amy, the language by Amy Bienvenu, 2026: a reimagined adaptation of the published rules. From COMPUTE!'s Gazette, August 1987: original Commodore 64 program (no author named in the issue). This is a modern homebrew adaptation, not a commercial Coleco release.