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Agon (or queen's guards or royal guards) is a strategy game invented by Anthony Peacock [1] of London, and first published in 1842. [2] It is a two-player game played on a 6×6×6 hexagonal gameboard, and is notable for being the oldest known board game played on a board of hexagonal cells.
Caillois argues that we can understand the complexity of games by referring to four play forms and two types of play (ludus and paidia): Agon, or competition. E.g. Chess is an almost purely agonistic game. In this form of play, the players have equal chances but the winner succeeds because of "a single quality (speed, endurance, strength ...
An abstract strategy game is a board, card or other game where game play does not simulate a real world theme, and a player's decisions affect the outcome.Many abstract strategy games are also combinatorial, i.e. they provide perfect information, and rely on neither physical dexterity nor random elements such as rolling dice or drawing cards or tiles.
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Roger Caillois (French: [ʁɔʒe kajwa]; 3 March 1913 – 21 December 1978) was a French intellectual and prolific writer whose original work brought together literary criticism, sociology, poetry, ludology and philosophy by focusing on very diverse subjects such as games, surrealism, south-American literature, the mineral world, dreams and images, ethnology, the history of religions and the ...
The New York Times' recent game, "Strands," is becoming more and more popular as another daily activity fans can find on the NYT website and app. With daily themes and "spangrams" to discover ...
U.S. President Donald Trump plans to order federal agencies to lay the groundwork for widespread firings of government workers, a White House official said on Tuesday. The order will also set ...
Agon (Ancient Greek: ἀγών) is the Greek personification for a conflict, struggle or contest, describing a concept of the same name.This could be a contest in athletics, in chariot or horse racing, or in music or literature at a public festival in ancient Greece.