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Definition: Andantino |
AndantinoAdjective1. (of tempo) moderately fast. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Etymology: Andantino \An`dan*ti"no\, adjective. [Italian expression, diminutive of andante.]. (references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Andantino is a two-player abstract strategy dynamic board game invented by David Smith. The game uses no fixed board; instead, the players place tiles according to the rules, creating the "board" as the game progresses.One player is Black, and plays black tiles; the other player is White, and plays white tiles. The tiles are regular hexagons, and should have no discerning features other than their colour.
The game is played as follows:
Note that due to these required rules, the first three plays of the game are forced; using number signs to represent black tiles and zeroes to represent white tiles, after the third move the game will always look like this:
- White starts by placing a tile; after that, play alternates, with one tile placement per turn.
- Black must place their first tile so that it matches edges with the starting tile. After this, every tile played must share sides with at least two of the tiles already played.
_ /0\\_ \\_/0\\ /#\\_/ \\_/This may be rotated or reflected, but the gameplay will be identical.
There seems to be a considerable first-move advantage in Andantino; playing two games, where the players swap first play, is common.
- A player wins by accomplishing one of two goals:
- They can complete a straight line of five tiles of their own colour, or
- They can surround one or more of their opponent's tiles in a continuous group of their own colour. There can be empty spaces in the surrounded group, as long as there is at least one enemy tile.
David Smith's games commonly use a dynamic board; see Spangles and Trax for others.
Andantino is playable on Richard Rognlie's play-by-eMail server. Like many connection games, where pieces typically do not move or become captured, Andantino lends itself well to play as a pencil-and-paper game. It can be considered a considerably deeper replacement for Tic-Tac-Toe.
Reference
- "Andantino." http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/andantino.html
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Andantino (game)."
Crosswords: Andantino |
| Non-English Usage: "Andantino" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (andantino), Turkish (andantino). |
| "Andantino" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Andantino" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
andantino | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "andantino"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Japanese Kanji | アンザス条約 (Ancien Regime, andante, andante cantabile, angelus, antagonism, anthology, anti-, anti-establishment, antique, antique fashion, ANZUS Treaty, disliked, submarine pitch, under, under par, undercoat, underground, underhand throw, underline, underpass, underplot, underproof, underscore, undershirt, underskill, underwear, undulation, United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia, UNTAC, untied loan, untouchable). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | アンダンティーノ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | andantinoay.(various references) | |
Russian | андантино (andantinos). (various references) | |
Spanish | andantino. (various references) | |
Turkish | andantino, andanteden daha canlı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | андантино. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "andantino": andantinos. (additional references) | |
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"Andantino" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aldanti. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "andantino" (pronounced Ä'ndÄ'ntē"nō) |
| 4 | -t ē" n ō | latino. |
| 3 | -ē" n ō | amino, bambino, cappuccino, casino, Cassino, Chino, fino, keno, ladino, lino, maraschino, Merino, neutrino, palomino, wino. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-i-n-n-n-o-t" | |
-1 letter: adnation. | |
-2 letters: nandina. | |
-3 letters: anoint, nandin, nation, tannin. | |
-4 letters: anion, danio, donna, naiad, ninon, niton, tondi. | |
-5 letters: adit, anna, anoa, anon, anta, anti, data, dato, dint, dita, doat, doit, dona, into, iota, naan, nada, nana, naoi, nodi, nona, nota, tain, toad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-i-n-n-n-o-t" | |
+1 letter: andantinos. | |
+3 letters: noncandidate. | |
+4 letters: incardination, noncandidates. | |
+5 letters: condensational, denominational, incardinations, noneducational, nontraditional, uncontaminated. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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