There appears to be some excellent articles about TwixT strategy on this website:

http://twixt.wikifoundry.com

but for some reason, none of the images appear on my browser, making the articles worthless. Is this the case for you, too? There is a sore need for organized TwixT strategy resources and I'm very frustrated to feel so close to something so inaccessible!

I recently discovered that website too, and I was quite disappointed to find that the images were missing. But I looked around to see what useful information there actually on the wiki.

Images for some pages were still there:

• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/Ladders
• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/The+Mousetrap
• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/Link+Removal

These articles don't have images, so nothing was lost:

• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/Maxims+for+moves
• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/Twixt+Variations

And these articles seem to be missing crucial information because of the lack of diagrams

• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/The+Achilles+Defense

• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/The+Medcalf+Defense

• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/Blocks%2C+balance%2C+and+potential+paths

I felt that the first two were really important, so I decided to ask about on the BGG forums. Luckily, David Bush was around to talk about them:

https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2446346/what-are-achilles-defense-and-medcalf-defense

There is also the opening and subsequent move statistics, the first of which is hosted somewhere else, and no images are actually necessary to follow along in the second link:

• http://www.mindspring.com/~alanh/twixt/first.html
• http://twixt.wikifoundry.com/page/Subsequent+moves+statistics

And finally some commentated Twixt games, which is hosted on another site that is now defunct, but thankfully, someone managed to archive it in time:

https://web.archive.org/web/20120817145947/https://www.hexwiki.org/index.php?title=Commented_TwixtPP_games

So all in all, there's no great loss. It would be nice if someone were to collect all of this information as you've said though. I found Twixt to be a very subtle game, and insights from experienced players turned out to be really, really helpful.

Hexwiki is not defunct, it's just moved: https://www.hexwiki.net/index.php?title=Commented_TwixtPP_games

That's good to know! Thanks!

Wow, thank you so much ypaul21!!! I wasn't expecting such a quick or thorough response. : )

I second shyryan's last comment.  A very thorough response from ypaul21.

Yes thank you ypaul21! BTW here are some more resources.

The BGG Twixt page has forum discussions, files to download, images to peruse, and links to more stuff.

Here are some specific forum threads from BGG.

• Silverman's blog post
• A 30x30 draw
• Twixt review
• Session report

Anyone who has played Twixt here knows about the analysis site with loads of commented games with an interactive board display.

Alan Hensel did that. His page here has links to other Twixt creations. Do check out the puzzles.

The quick disappearance of web pages is one of the reason I try to push all the author of strategy sites (e.g. the excellent strategy guide to hex by  Matthew Seymour) to publish in paper form (or at least in PDF).

@David J Bush

What software did you use for creating diagrams in this BGG thread?

I used Jtwixt. This needs an older version of Java, Oracle 10.0.2 for my Linux machine, to run. It's an analysis tool similar to the duckdns site set up for size 24 games here, but it offers some advantages. You can store an entire analysis tree in a file, not just the main line. You can label the leaf nodes as winning, losing, draw etc. and Jtwixt will update the parent nodes accordingly. I used a special option in the Misc menu, the UI option, I checked DB which refers to me. Jtwixt has no game engine. Please message or email me if you have any question or difficulty. twixtfanatic atsymbol gmail period com I should also mention the link, at the bottom of all duckdns game pages, to download a Jtwixt file for that game. Jtwixt does standard rules so that might be a slight inconvenience. Also it doesn't offer a specific swap move. There is a convoluted workaround if you want to reproduce an LG game manually, but if you download the file, it turns for example 1.D6 2.swap into 1.F4 2.F4 so you don't have to jump through hoops and the display looks the same as on LG, no mirror image, and the move count remains the same.

While we are listing resources to download, there is also T1j, which does know how to play. Their website is here. It seems to work with current Java. A Windows version is here. It doesn't do link removal but it does have the pie rule and it offers row handicapping, so this is the preferred app to take screen shots of a handicap game.