Talking about old and older obscure abstract games
Line-Ups is a 1979 game by Phil Orbanes, published at GAMES magazine #11.
The rules came with two 12x12 boards to be played in the magazine itself using pencils (it was part of the recurring Pencilwise section).
Line-Ups is thus a pencil and paper game, and a curious mix of moku and scoring ludemes.
By
João Neto
at
11:32
Labels:
moku,
old games,
pencil & paper
Most of the early posts about new games came from playtesting and discussions between João Pedro Neto and Bill Taylor. But even before Bill's passing on July 2021, the blog had gradually shifted its focus toward old and obscure two-player abstract board games. The blog will tend to avoid Chess variants, Mancala games, and Go Variants, as dedicated sites for those already exist.
Regarding the chronological tags: older games means 1800s-1940s (pre-WW2),
old games means 1950-1989 (pre-video games),
new games means 1990-2005 (at least for now).
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