Trabsact Sagme Diaries

Smess , aka All The King's Men, is a 1970 game by Perry Grant and Reuben Klamer, published by Milton Bradley among others. The game is p...

FIDE Chess is the most played abstract game in the Western hemisphere. It is not unexpected that publishers try to use this fact to create a...

In December 1985, the french magazine Science & Vie #819 listed several variants to be played on the standard 3x3 board of Tic-Tac-Toe....

Bantu is a 1955 uncredited game, published by Parker Brothers. Bantu is a race game where players must traverse the following circular boar...

"Atchin, new amusing conquest game" is a game from the Netherlands published in 1874. The name Atchin refers to Aceh, a province i...

Gimel is a 1980 game by Manuel A. Widmaier, published at Bütehorn Spiele, and later at Hexagames. It is played on a 8x18 board -- I suppose...

Another theme is pencil and paper games is blocking, i.e., as the game advances, less and less squares are available, until the stalemated p...

Among the most well-known pencil and paper abstract games are Tic-Tac-Toe, Gomoku, and Dots'n'Boxes. Another famous game that can be...

Pencil and paper games all share the property that each grid cell can only be used a very limited number of times (usually once or twice). W...

All classifications are arbitrary, but some are more useful than others (to paraphrase George Box). When thinking about the origins of abstr...

Catch is a 1995 game by Reiner Knizia, published in Spielbox magazine. The game is played on an 8x8 board, initially empty. Each player has...

Take it Away is a 1969 game by Sid Sackson, published at Dover. It is played on a 8x8 board with 34 white, 20 red and 10 blue stones (for a...

Nevo , aka 2-5-8, is a 1979 game by Michael Vonderheid, published by ArtDeco Games. The game is played in a 7x12 grid, and each player has t...

Lambchop is a 2001 game by Dan Troyka, published online . The game is played on a square board, say 5x5, initially empty. Each player has ju...

Conflict is a 2000 game by Alexander Stevens, published online . The game is played on a 10x10 board, initially empty. Each player has eight...

Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays , from 1982, is a book that marks the beginning of an entire mathematical area, Combinatorial Game ...