Using an X/Y graph to play by mail. The points on the graph are considered exactly one quarter of a stone distant orthogonal. Each placement of a stone is...
As most of you know, The World of Abstract Games (WAG) website consists of a large collection of abstract games divides into 4 main sections: Go variants /...
... Check out: www.abstractgamesmagazine.com for the latest news about the magazine. And if you haven't already, get your subscription now! It's well worth...
Hi Clark, ... That crossed my mind :) I read somewhere that there are 200+ mancalas but most of them are very similar (am I wrong?) with just very little rules...
... I read it. They say they will continue (how old is that text?) but they stop answering my emails some months ago ... Do you think I missed them? I have all...
... I didn't buy a copy when I saw it in the local bookstore a few years ago, but _Complete_Mancala_Games_Book_ (ISBN 1569246831) looked very promising. Also,...
Let me announce the beginning of a blog dedicated to abstract games reflections and ideas from alien worlds directly from Trabsact Sagme's diaries :ş) Check...
Does anyone have a book "Das Dreischach" by Siegmund Wellisch? Lada ____________________________________________________________ Příjemný design. Příjemnější...
Hi, I'm looking for information on two old connection games called Roadblock and Squirt. These were mentioned by Martin Gardner in "Four Unusual Board Games"...
I wanted to publish here a new connection game/variant from Bill Taylor, but yahoo always eats the extra spaces that I use in the diagrams (anyone knows how to...
... This is one of those problems which has plagued these Groups for all these years. Many a note has been sent to the Yahoo! webmasters in this regard. A...
... hehe, that's a good one another possibility: replace double spaces with "__", below is the BI- POD text with this feature. Not very pretty, but readable. ...
Hello, ... When I bought the book several years ago, it made me very happy. However, after I checked the rules in many primary sources (the ethnological...
... Nice link, I added to the mancala webpage ... 600? I had no idea they were so many!! How many modern variants (modern meaning less than 100 years) do you...
Hi Joao, ... Pankhurst recorded more 100 for Ethiopia, Eritrea und Somalia, but there must be more variants played in the Horn of Africa. Townshend gave the...
If you live in the USA, you could perhaps help me. I need the rules of two games. The "Mancala Gallery" at http://www.abstractstrategy.com/mancala-g.html shows...
Original Swahili rules can be found at: http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Swahili.PDF Hasbro has scanned the original rules for most of the old Parker ...
Hello, I will give a Mancala workshop at the "1rst Afrika Fest" (Africa Festival) in Sinzig (Bootshaus), between Bonn and Koblenz, Germany next weekend. THE...
I am an entrepreneur, developing a new method for marketing games, which will likely be feasible only for abstract strategy games (this irony is not lost on...
How about Arimaa? This abstract game seems to meet your requirements and it's my favorite because of its depth and variety (your sense 7). http://arimaa.com ...
Arimaa is a fantastic game; just the kind I'm looking for, but the fact that it's playable with a chess set might disqualify it. ... requirements ... 7)....
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