Oh, that move changed everything

Thanks

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Thanks. What unintionally surprised me were how many of the new words were legit. I wanted it to be somewhat clear that the original W words made more sense.

Thanks. My very first thought was I'd have the original clues but the new words (with B) but about 30 seconds it became apparent that if the solvers only had the original clues how would......

Thanks for playing. I had the concept and pretty much let Crosshare finish for me.

Utterly different games! Go is a game where you place tokens (that never change color) in an attempt to squeeze out the other. Othello (or Reversi) is where you place chips in a way as to flip the pieces between endpoints to your color. Go fairly organic and the your territory looks eventually like blobs. Othello each much is to find a straight line work with that.

Reversi and Othello were always both acceptable answers. Reversi's kind of interesting. Reversi was invented in 1883 and was popular for a while and then disappeared. The inventor of Othello in 1975 may or may not have been aware of Reversi but essentially it's the same game. The distinctive green board (it'd have been great if I could have made the blank spaces green!) and the starting position of chips on the board are unique to Othello. But what I find interesting is now you will see many electronic and online versions calling themselves "Reversi" probably because they are avoiding copyright (I guess)

One person submitted UpWords. That deserves an honorable mention but I can't accept it. UpWords is a game similar to Scrabble but you are allowed to place tiles on top of tiles to change the letters in words. In some cases placing a B on a W did make a legit word but in more cases they did not. But ultimately the premise of the meta is Black just made a move an in a move only the tiles in a word are changed. You wouldn't play diagonally through a grid of words.

I'm not sure I understand the question. The "Pointed weapon" was SWORD and the "tired of graham cracker chocolate, etc" was SBORD which, s'bord, was my play on S'Mores.

What did you google to lead you to GO? A lot of people seemed to have tried GO and ... I'm intrigued but don't understand.