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Mathematically, Othello is solved up to 8x8 board. On 4×4 and 6×6 boards under perfect play, the second player wins. [23] On 8x8 board, the game results in draw under perfect play, according to an arXiv paper. [24] The first of these proofs is relatively trivial, the second dates to around 1990, and the last one was done in 2023.
This is a list of board games.See the article on game classification for other alternatives, or see Category:Board games for a list of board game articles. Board games are games with rules, a playing surface, and tokens that enable interaction between or among players as players look down at the playing surface and face each other. [1]
Breakthrough is an abstract strategy board game invented by Dan Troyka in 2000 and made available as a Zillions of Games file (ZRF). It won the 2001 8x8 Game Design Competition , even though the game was originally played on a 7x7 board, as it is trivially extensible to larger board sizes.
Pictures is a 2019 designer board game by Daniela and Christian Stöhr. It won the 2020 Spiel des Jahres. [1] In the words of T3 magazine, players "recreate an artsy picture using a bunch of weird components". [2]
Makyek (Thai: หมากแยก) is an abstract strategy board game played on an 8x8 square board with 16 pieces per player, where players move their pieces like the rook in chess and attempt to capture their opponent's pieces through custodian and intervention capture. Unlike chess, Makyek only has one type of piece, the rook, and players ...
Azul (Portuguese and Spanish for "blue") is an abstract strategy board game designed by Michael Kiesling and released by Plan B Games in 2017. Based on Portuguese tiles called azulejos, in Azul players collect sets of similarly colored tiles which they place on their player board. When a row is filled, one of the tiles is moved into a square ...
Halma (from Greek: ἅλμα, romanized: hálma, meaning “leap" [1]) is a strategy board game invented in 1883 or 1884 by George Howard Monks, an American thoracic surgeon at Harvard Medical School. His inspiration was the English game Hoppity which was devised in 1854. [2] The gameboard is checkered and divided into 16×16 squares.
The game features an unusual method of capture which is "possibly unique" and "not known to exist in any other recorded board game". [1] [2] Little is known about its history. The name of the game in Indonesian is permainan, which simply translates as "the game". [3] [4] In Java, the game is also called dam-daman.