I can not figure out at all how to get the things to flip over. Does anyone have any guesses? The game of reverse checks every direction and the board has x and o. _ stands for a potential move and "." stand for just an empty space. I'm trying to make it check all positions upward in this while loop and Idk how to make sure they all work. any ideas

not sure what you want, you want to find every possible piece that might need to be updated after a piece is placed?

yes. all 8 directions, left right top bottom and the diagonals. play a quick game of reversi and you'll see what i mean

i dont think anyone's interested in playing reversi to figure out what you're doing.

if it's only 8 spots, why not hard code them?

row-1 col - 1; row-1 col; row-1 col+1
row col-1; row col+1
row+1 col - 1; row+1 col; row+1 col+1

make sure to check boundaries in case you're at an end/corner

this is what i was thinking off using an m x n matrix, piece placed at x,y; pseudo/python code, hopefully I didn't reverse the logic anywhere

vertical checking:
for i from 0 to m:
if i !=x
checkpiece(i,y)

horizontal checking
for i from 0 to n:
if i != y:
checkpiece(x,i)

negative slope diagonal checking
starty = y
while x > 0 and y > 0:
x = x - 1
y = y - 1
for i from 0 to n:
if i !=starty:
checkpiece(x,y)

positive slope diagonal checking
starty = y
while x < m and y > 0:
x = x + 1
y = y - 1
for i from 0 to n:
if i != starty:
checkpiece(x,y)

sorry jsp chewed that up pretty good, and i'm not allowed to edit posts!