Intermezzo
Intermezzo is a 1993 game by Reiner Knizia, published in Spielbox magazine.
The game is played on 9x9 or 9x10 board initially empty. Each player has 33 pieces.
Rules:
- On her turn, the player either:
- drops a friendly piece on an empty square
- calls an intermezzo on a friendly piece: then all horizontal and vertical lines of empty squares between that piece and other friendly pieces, are occupied with new friendly pieces
- Wins the player that places all her stones on board
This position was shown in the original article:
after 12 moves, Black makes the first intermezzo on piece [1]
This is a pencil & paper game, no need for physical pieces to enjoy some matches.
The Spielbox article (in German):
Labels:
new games,
pencil & paper
1 comment:
Thanks for this addition.
I think that there is a mistake concerning your description of the Intermezzo (I checked from the german text). A translation of the german text is :
Instead of his normal turn, a player can also play an intermezzo.
Then he dart occupy all free spaces with his game pieces
on straight and unbroken lines (horizontal or vertical) are between two of your own tiles.
With the newly set spreetsinen durten (in the same turn, however, no
further lines are formed. Only the lines available at the beginning of an intermezzo may be occupied.
So an Intermezzo allows to fill all the spaces between friendly pieces.
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