Creeper

Selection #4 of The Games Collection by Pin International.

Creeper is an abstract strategy game which belongs in the same family as Hex/Twixt. That is, two players attempt to link two sides of the board with a chain of pieces.

Players: 2 only. One plays black, the other white. The Bits:

 16 pawns, 8 black and 8 white.
 32 "Othello" disks, i.e. black one side and white on the other.
 A board made up of a 6×6 square grid of octagons. 

The game: Although the spaces on the board are octagonal, the main playing pieces ( the pawns ) are placed and played in the squares that are formed where the corners of the octagons meet. On his/her turn, the player may move one of their 8 pawns. A move may consist of leaping diagonally over an octagon, or a simple move between one octagon and the next in a straight line, or finally a pawn may capture an opponents` pawn by jumping over it a la checkers/draughts.

In the first case, if a pawn makes the diagonal jump one of two actions may take place: if the octagon is empty, one of the disks is played inside it, with the players colour uppermost. Alternatively, if the octagon is occupied by an opponents disk, this disk is flipped over to show the opposite side (and therefore colour). The winner is the first player to link two specific diagonally opposed corners ( black must link top left to bottom right and white top right to bottom left), with a continuous chain of their colour disks. Only orthogonal links count, not diagonal.