Abstract games

And You Thought Rubik’s Cube Was Tough Many, many years ago, I got my first Rubik’s Cube. I managed to solve it, but only after about six months of puzzling over it. I know my solution isn’t the fastest, but

Playing with Hexagonal Dominoes Ingenious was designed in 2004 by Reiner Knizia. It has a very good reputation in the gaming community ranking very high among abstracts. As you can see in the picture above, you play the game with

Attempting to Improve on a Classic Attempting to turn a classic 2-player game, like chess or checkers, into a game for more than 2 players doesn’t usually work. There’s apparently a good reason that those games have come down through

Gobblet Is Enhanced Tic Tac Toe Gobblet is a simple board game you’ll probably want to play several times in a row. Gobblet is reminiscent of tic-tac-toe, but has more depth to it. The Gobblet board is a 4-by-4 square

Playing the Strangely Named YINSH YINSH is a two-player abstract (meaning, it has no theme like a Euro game does) board game that has elements of Pente, where you try to get 5 of your tokens in a row, and