List of abstract strategy games
Encyclopedia
An abstract strategy game
is a board
or card game with perfect information
, no chance or physical skill, and (usually) two players or teams.
Paper and pencil game
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Abstract strategy game
An abstract strategy game is a strategy game, aiming to minimise luck, and without a theme. Almost all abstract strategy games will conform to the strictest definition of: a board or card game, in which there is no hidden information, no non-deterministic elements , in which two players or teams...
is a board
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
or card game with perfect information
Perfect information
In game theory, perfect information describes the situation when a player has available the same information to determine all of the possible games as would be available at the end of the game....
, no chance or physical skill, and (usually) two players or teams.
Paper and pencil gamePaper and pencil gamePaper-and-pencil games are games that can be played solely with paper and pencil .In some board games, including some abstract strategy games like Gomoku, a piece once played will not be moved on the board or removed from the board...
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- Dots and BoxesDots and BoxesDots and Boxes is a pencil and paper game for two players first published in 1889 by Édouard Lucas.Starting with an empty grid of dots, players take turns, adding a single...
- Kropki
- SproutsSprouts (game)Sprouts is a pencil-and-paper game with interesting mathematical properties. It was invented by mathematicians John Horton Conway and Michael S. Paterson at Cambridge University in 1967.- Rules :...
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"n-in-a-row" games
Those marked † can conveniently be played as paper and pencil games.Stacking games
- AccastaAccastaAccasta is a stacking abstract strategy board game on a hexagonal board for two players. The game was designed by Dieter Stein and published solely over the web and in the German game design magazine .-External links:*The game's homepages:...
- DVONNDVONNDVONN is a two-player strategy board game in which the objective is to accumulate pieces in stacks. It was released in 2001 by Kris Burm as the fourth game of the GIPF Project. DVONN won the 2002 International Gamers Award and the Games magazine Game of the Year Award in 2003.- Equipment :DVONN is...
(part of the GIPF projectGIPF projectThe GIPF Project is an award-winning series of six abstract strategy games by designer Kris Burm.The series is named after the first game, GIPF, and the idea behind the project is that the reward for winning each of the other games in the series is to allow the winner to introduce new pieces with...
, listed below) - FocusFocus (board game)Focus is an abstract strategy board game, designed by Sid Sackson and first published in 1964 by Kosmos. The game has been re-published many times since, sometimes under the titles Domination or Dominio. Focus won the 1981 Spiel des Jahres and Essen Feather awards...
- GounkiGounkiGounki is an abstract strategy game in which pieces can combine and disperse to affect their movement possibilities. Played on an eight-by-eight square grid, the goal is to move one of your own pieces off the opposite end of the board while preventing your opponent from doing the same.It was...
- LascaLascaLasca is a draughts variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker...
- PlateauPlateau (game)- History :The game was developed over a two-year period culminating in its present form on May 12, 1986. The original name for the game was Pinnacle, but it was discovered that an older board/card game had that name, so around 1989 the name was changed to Plateau....
- PylosPylos (board game)Pylos is a board game invented by David G. Royffe and published by Gigamic. Two players are given 15 marbles each. They take turns to make a pyramid in a 4 by 4 square grid...
- SantoriniSantorini (game)Santorini is a two or three-player strategy board game released in 2004 by Gordon Hamilton.All profits from Santorini go towards The Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens or to improve mathematics education in Brazil.-Gameplay:...