Red White Blue

Red White Blue is an uncredited game, c.1938, which was offered to customers by the firm Perry & Co [1].

The game is played on a 8x8 board, where one player has fourteen blue and seven white pieces, and the other player has fourteen red and seven white pieces. The white pieces are marked red or blue, to identify its owner.

The rules based on the text from Fred Horn (adjacency and movement are assumed either orthogonally or diagonally):

• On his turn, the player moves a friendly stone to an adjacent empty square
• When a player makes a red-white-blue pattern, he removes those three stones and scores one point (the white piece can be from either player)
  
• The game ends when it is no longer possible to make the pattern
• Wins the player with more points
  

This is a very interesting game. The ludeme of piece removal, after a pattern is made, is quite original as far as I can tell.

The color pattern comes from the flag of the Netherlands 🇳🇱.

[1] Fred Horn, Great Finds, AGPC Quarterly vol.17 [3], (2015).