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A very laudable clone of an old game called Infection. You and another player attempt to cover a board in counters of your own color by placing your counters either side of the opponent's counters (vertical, diagonal or horizontal, by the way) and thereby turning his/her counters to your color. Originally Ian Davison designed this as a two -player-only game but wisely decided to include the single-player mode. Once you've discovered how to turn on the automatic mode , so that you don 't have to work out which counters to keep turning over all the time, it's a lot of fun. Ian's even included a challenge mode which then allows the player to go through a series of preset grids. Great stuff indeed. Ian admits that the computer 's Al is a little predictable, and that's about the only thing that 's really wrong with the game - you can set up traps very easily and the computer will often walk straight into them .