10 squares left and the game is won for you. Exactly one square keeps it. Play the wrong one and the engine, which solves this to the last disc, will not give it back.
About Turn
Turn is the daily Othello endgame. Everybody has played the game once, usually badly and usually as a child, by grabbing as many discs as possible and wondering why they lost. Almost nobody plays the last ten squares, which is where the whole thing is actually decided and where it stops being a game of chance.
The disc count in the middle of a game means almost nothing, because any disc can flip back. What matters is squares: how many you can still play into, and how few you leave the other side. That is why flipping the fewest discs is usually right, and it is also why a bank that rewarded it every day would be teaching a habit rather than testing a read. About a third of these boards are days where the greedy square, the one that turns the whole row, is the only move that wins.
Every board is a real position reached by a real game, solved to the last disc and checked so that exactly one square still wins it. More dailies: Chain, Four, Mate, Check.
Turn, in short
How do you play Turn?
An Othello endgame you are already winning. One square keeps it, and flipping the fewest discs is the habit that gets you beaten.
Is Turn free to play?
Yes. Turn is free to play in your browser on Mind Loft, with no app to install and no account required.
When does a new Turn puzzle come out?
A new Turn arrives every day at midnight Eastern time, and Sundays bring the Sunday Edition, the biggest or hardest board of the week.
What kind of puzzle is Turn?
Turn is a daily endgame puzzle from Mind Loft: ten squares left. Puzzle type: othello endgame. It is part of the daily end game puzzles lineup.
Can I play past Turn puzzles?
Yes. Every past Turn board is in the daily puzzle archive, along with the day's standings.
What other daily end game puzzles does Mind Loft have?