King's Valley

King's Valley is a very simple and easy game to play. This is because all the pieces move the same. Any piece can move straight horizontal, vertical or diagonal, but always as far as possible. Pieces always stop their movement either at the sides of the board or before another tile in the same row, column, or diagonal. The winner is the first player that manages to move his king piece to the central square of the board, which represents the King's Valley.

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Pentalath

Pentalath (also called Ndengrod) is an abstract board game for two players, designed by a computer program called LUDI, invented by Cameron Browne.

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Yavalath

Yavalath is an abstract strategy game for two players. Players strive to make a straight line of 4 pieces of their colour, but lose if they make a line of 3 before doing so.

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Cephalopod

Cephalopod is a dice game that includes no chance. The dice comprise the playing pieces. The goal is to fill a board of various sizes with as many of your dice as possible. This is complicated by a capturing mechanic that keeps the board in constant flux. The game ends when the board has been completely filled. As with most Mark Steere games, draws and ties are not possible.

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Chase

Dice are your pawns: capture and regenerate as you carom around the wraparound board.

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Cublino

Use dice as pawns: roll or jump to opponent's starting line. High score wins

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Bagh Chal

Translated as "tigers moving", this abstract strategy game pits tigers vs goats!

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Dice King Chess

Dice King Chess is an intellectual game that combines a dice puzzle game with mini Chess and Halma.

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Ming Mang

Ming Mang is a traditional game of Tibetan origin played on a NxN board.

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Surakarta

A strategy game originating in Java. The game includes circular paths which loop around the corners of the board. In order to make a capture, a piece must loop around one or more of the circular paths before moving onto a space occupied by an enemy piece.

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Jul-Gonu

Capture all of the opponent's stones or to force your opponent into a position where he has only one stone remaining or cannot make any valid moves/captures.

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Alquerque

Capture or immobilize your opponents dozen pieces on the five by five board.

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Mu Torere

n this traditional Maori game, use your four men to immobilize your opponent's four.

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Triad

Triad is a two-player abstract strategy game where each player tries to align three of their tokens in a continuous line

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Horseshoe

Horseshoe or Block is the English names for a game played in southeast Asia. It is a simple game of blockade played by two players on a board of five points, with each player having two pieces. The aim of the game for a player is to block the pieces of the other so as to prevent his movement.

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Hnefatafl

This is a traditional Norse tafl game in which defenders protect the king from invaders!

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Seega

Ancient abstract where you capture opposing pieces by pinning them.

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Pineapple Chess

Pineapple chess is a game of capture

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Xi Gua Qi

西瓜棋 (xī guā qí́), or Watermelon Game, has been described as a traditional folk game from Hangzhou for children.

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Bear Hunt

Bear games is a category of board games of which many have historical roots in the Roman Empire. They were played in parts of the Empire as far away as Turkey and France and are still played today, especially in Italy.

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Jenkins

Jenkins is a game invented by Homer H. Jenkins, humble telegrapher for the Southern Pacific Railroad. The game was never published

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Konane

A traditional Hawaiian game of jumping captures.

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Tic Tac Toe

A very old game where each player attempts to place three of their markers (usually an X or an O) in a line on a 3x3 grid.

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Three Men's Morris

This ancient game is probably a direct ancestor of the better known Nine Men's Morris as well as Tic-Tac-Toe. It is played on a board of three rows and three columns.

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Lanrick

A game by Lewis Carroll published in 1893, but invented 1878.

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Bizingo

Defeat your opponent with two captains and 16 men on a semi-triangular board.

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Petteia and Ludus Latrunculorum

Roughly translated as 'Robbers', this abstract battle game was known to be played by the Romans, and versions of the same game may well have been played before by the Ancient Greeks and Egyptians, and afterwards by the Persians.

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Neutreeko

Pieces move by sliding orthogonally or diagonally until blocked by the edge of the board (5x5) or another piece. The object of the game is to arrange your pieces in a line of three either orthogonally or diagonally.

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Dablot Prejjesne

The king, prince, and warriors face off against the landowner, his son, and tenant.

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Tinker Tactics

Tinker Tactics is a free, abstract microgame for 2 or 4 players and takes around 5-10 minutes to play.

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Herooj

An abstract game of masters and heroes.

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Lines of Action

Be the first to connect all your pieces by moving them along their lines of action.

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Fox and Hounds

Four strong predator moving front try to capture a free moving prey.

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Chiangmai Checkers

A two-player abstract strategy game, reputedly originating from Chiangmai, Thailand, where it is said to be called Mhark Nheeb.

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Bobail

The publishers of Bobail claim that it's a traditional African game

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Fanorona

Fast and aggressive abstract game hailing from the island nation of Madagascar.

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