Pueblo is an abstract strategy game

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...

 which is a competition to optimally place blocks in a constrained space. The name, theme, and artwork for the game derive from the famous architecture of Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo

Taos Pueblo is an ancient pueblo belonging to a Taos speaking Native American tribe of Pueblo people. It is approximately 1000 years old and lies about north of the modern city of Taos, New Mexico, USA...

, but they are very lightly applied.

Equipment

A rectangular playing board. Each player has an equal number of colored and neutral blocks, all of which have the same three dimensional shape. A Chieftain piece, and a scoring track.

Setup

Start with the board empty, the Chieftain in a corner, and with each player's neutral and colored blocks in pairs.

Object

Points are scored when the Chieftain can see any of your colored blocks. The goal of the game is to avoid scoring points.

Play

Play rotates among the players. On each move, place one new block on the board, move the Chieftain, and score the players whose colored blocks are visible to him.

Strategy

The really elementary strategy is to place your blocks behind the Chieftain, but that quickly becomes impossible, as the Chieftain walks all around the board and revisits same viewpoints. The ground level of the board fills up, forcing the players to build upward.