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Splits

Simple and stratecig!

Jactalea – for some time that did mean games with a board made from leather or chamois leather, with the components rolled into the board for packaging. Times change, Jactalea changed and the packages changed, now Jactalea games come in boxes and the long-announced Splits has now been published.

Splits is an abstract game, and as in all Jactalea games the principle is easily explained: Besiege the opposing towers and block their movements.

In this game the board is made up from several parts, each of the players receive four of the 8 parts – each comprising four hexagons – and alternate in placing them. Newly placed board parts must touch one already placed at some spot.

Then both players stack their 16 discs and place them on a edge spot of their choice. White starts the game and splits his stack. The top part of the stack is placed on an empty spot as a new stack. Then Red follows suit and then both players alternate in moving. In each turn one of their stacks is split and the top part moved. The rules are: At least one piece must remain in place and at least one piece must be moved. The movement is done straight ahead over one of the edges of the starting spot and as far as possible or as far as you want. The move ends in front of an obstacle or the border of the board. When a stack is blocked in all directions it cannot be split anymore. When a player cannot split any of his stacks he has lost the game.

So simple, so elegant and not easy at all – and due to the modular board you cannot optimize a winning strategy except: Don’t let yourself get blocked, but block your opponent.

Spieler         : 2

Alter            : ages 8 and up

Dauer           : ca. 20 min

Autor           : Francesco Rotta

Grafik          : not cited

Titel            : ident

Preis            : ca. 25,00 Euro

Verlag          : Jactalea 2010

                     www.jactalea.com

Genre                    : abstract placement and position game

Zielgruppe             : With friends

Mechanismen         : Split stacks, move top part

Kommentar:

Simple basic mechanism

Modular board

Purely abstract game

Only for 2 players

Rules only in French

Vergleichbar:

Other abstract games for 2 with a blocking mechanism

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