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Tiger and buffaloes. Tiger and buffaloes is a two-player abstract strategy board game from Myanmar (formerly known as Burma ). [1] It belongs to the hunt game family. The board is a 4x4 square grid, where pieces are placed on the intersection points and move along the lines. It is one of the smallest hunt games.
Brax (game) Brax is a two-player abstract strategy board game. It was invented in 1889 (or shortly before) in America by Frederic B. Denham of New York City. [1] The board design is unique. The players move their pieces along paths on the square board; each path is one of two colors. A piece can move one or two spaces in a turn depending upon ...
Shadow Hunters. Shadow Hunters (シャドウハンターズ, shadō hantāzu) is a social deduction board game designed by Yasutaka Ikeda that was first published in 2005 by Game Republic in Japan. [ 1] The game was published in the United States by Z-Man Games in 2008. [ 2] The art style of the game closely resembles the style found in ...
Scotland Yard is an asymmetric board game, during which the detective players cooperatively solve a variant of the pursuit–evasion problem. The game is published by Ravensburger in most of Europe and Canada and by Milton Bradley in the United States. It received the Spiel des Jahres (Game of the Year) award in 1983 [ 1] -the same year that it ...
Thomas Hughes ' 1857 novel Tom Brown's School Days depicts a meet by the Big-Side Hare and Hounds. Students busily tear old newspapers, copybooks and magazines into small pieces to fill four large bags with the paper ‘scent’. Forty or fifty boys gather, and two good runners are chosen as hares. Carrying the bags, they start across the ...
Pente is an abstract strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabrel. [1] [2] A member of the m,n,k game family, Pente stands out for its custodial capture mechanic, which allows players to "sandwich" pairs of stones and capture them by flanking them on either side.
N-in-a-row games involve placing and/or moving pieces on a game board attempting to create a layout of N pieces in a straight line (often N=3, but not always). Positional games [1] involve only playing pieces, with no movement or captures afterwards. Many of these positional games can also be played as paper and pencil games, and these are ...
Leopard hunt games or simply leopard games are a group of abstract strategy games of Southeast Asian origin, similar in spirit to European fox games, although they are believed to have arisen independently. [1] The games are usually played on a triangular board with three horizontal parallel lines (including the triangle's base) intersecting ...