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Tawula is a game for two players using a standard tables board with 4 quadrants, 12 points on each side, and a pair of dice. There are 15 pieces per player, and the aim is to move them around the board anticlockwise to the home table and then be the first to bear off all one's pieces.
Sujiko is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle created by Jai Gomer of Kobayaashi Studios. [1]A completed Sujiko puzzle. The puzzle takes place on a 3x3 grid with four circled number clues at the centre of each quadrant which indicate the sum of the four numbers in that quadrant.
Ludus Anglicorum, also called the English Game, is an historical English tables game for two players using a board similar to that used today for Backgammon and other games. It is a "strategic game for serious game-players" and was well known in the Middle Ages. [1] At one time it was considered the most popular tables game in England. [2]
The game starts with a short text description of the mission before allowing the player to enter commands. Each game starts with a different number of Klingons, friendly starbases, and stars spread throughout the galaxy. The galaxy is depicted as an 8-by-8 grid of "quadrants". Each quadrant is further divided into an 8-by-8 grid of "sectors".
A player may form a prime anywhere except in the first quadrant or the opponent's first quadrant. One player A has assembled all 15 men on the point behind the prime, player B must unblock a point to enable A to advance. [2] These prime rules are not enforced in all Greek regions. [3] A player must not completely block the opponent.
Players begin by setting up the board as shown. White is at the top and places on the home side, 3 men on the 6 and 8 points and 2 on the 3 and 7 points; on the opposing side he places 2 men on the Ace point and 3 on the 12 point. Black mirrors White's layout. Players move in opposite directions; White moves clockwise and Black, anticlockwise. [3]
[3] Games magazine included Feudal in their "Top 100 Games of 1981", noting that "the initial set-up is done secretly, so the game is constantly surprising". [4] Games & Puzzles felt that the ideal version of the game was the two-player version with each player having two armies, but concluded that there was "very little classifiable strategy". [5]
One example is nine square, which uses a 3-by-3 grid instead of a 2-by-2 grid. [8] The 9 square is the middle and the ball is served from this position. Another version is played similar to the original in that four players occupy their respective spots, but they must keep the ball off the ground like in volleyball.