By all appearances, Go is just two players taking turns laying stones on a 19×19 (or smaller) grid of intersections. But once its basic rules are understood,Go shows its staggering depth. One can see why many people say it's one of the most elegant brain-burning abstract games in history. Players place one stone at a time on the board at an empty...
Joker Go is a Go variant/expansion using a special deck of cards. Each player has an identical deck of 27 cards which show a configuration of Go stones. In the basic game players choose to either play a stone normally or randomly draw and play a Joker Go card. When you play a Joker card, you place the stones shown on the card onto the board in a spot of...
Subtitled "The American Go Game." Campaign! was published in 1961 to reflect on the War Between the States. The game board is made up of squares 18 long and 15 wide, with various "battlefields" interspersed among the blocks. Each player starts with 72 wooden discs. Each turn, a player rolls the dice and adds discs to his or her lines, attempting to...
Introduction1. Conversion Go is a territory game for two players, Black and White, who alternately put stones of their color on the board. 2. The board is a 16x16 grid (counting the points rather than the squares). At the beginning the board is empty, with play taking place on the points. Play3. A corner point is considered to belong to both edges that...
Go-Ball is an adaptation of the board game Go. We have taken the rules of the traditional game of Go, modified the board, and called it the Go-Ball. The Go-Ball, as the name suggests, is based on the game of Go but is played on a ball or globe. Go-Ball comes in a box containing 20 puzzle pieces. Taking pieces one at a time, players fit them together to...
Go with the Floe is a two-player abstract chase game. The seal player wants to isolate the seals beyond the reach of the pursuing polar bears. The polar bear player wins if both seals are caught, otherwise the seal player wins. Components Modified 8 x 8 board with 52 ice spaces 2 black seal tokens and 2 white polar bear tokens. 50 hole-in-the-ice ring...
The Godfather Game puts players in the roles of mob bosses vying for control of rackets in several neighborhoods. The game plays like Go, except that stones are bought for varying prices based on the area of the board they will be deployed to. Three decks of cards provide monetary income for buying more stones and also good and bad events that must be...
Godzilla was published in the Swiss gaming zine "AHA" #88/1. The game is played on a 10x10 board. One player plays with Godzilla, the other one plays with 6 people/tokens from Tokyo. Each of the 6 Tokyo tokens has a different colour and wears an imaginary weapon of the same colour. Before the game begins, the Tokyo player places 40 houses, 10...
The players search for gold, trying to get the most and the best claims (game board fields) The game for 2 players or 4 playrer in 2 teams. The game board has 7 x 5 square fields (western scenery back ground without game relevance) On Players turn he places 1 of his fences on a line between the squares (or at the edge of one at the board border). Each time...
From Wikipedia: Gonnect is a strategy board game for two players invented by João Pedro Neto in 2000. The game is played with standard go equipment (though 13x13 boards are often preferred to 19x19) and all the rules of Go apply, except that players can't pass and the pie rule is used to determine who goes first. The goal of the game is to construct a...
Publisher's summary GoRoGo is new Go variant game for two players played with each 10 ordinary black and white pieces and 5 additional neutral ones. Each player has two of the neutral pieces, and one starts on the game board. Like Go, the game is played on a grid, but the board has only a 5x5 grid with 25 intersections and 40 paths. The purpose of the game...
Gosix is an abstract strategy game played on a 7 hexagons board. You're trying to control 4 of the 7 hexagons. The trick is: whenever you get control over a hexagon, you lose some of the pawns that made you win. Players take turns placing a pawn on the board. You must discover how to win while losing as few pawns as possible, or "help" your opponent to win...