Abstract Game Articles

Last updated February 18, 2024

This is the core section of the AEG site.

The menu on the left gives links to my articles on abstract games.  Not a long list so far, but slowly growing . . .
Each may include a brief synopsis of the game, rules, my opinion on its merits, strategy, availabilty to play and anything else that I find interesting.
I invite readers to add their comments at the bottom of each page, for which you are required to be logged in from the home page.

What is an Abstract Game?

The purest form of intellectual competition between two people with full information and no element of chance.  There is debate on a precise definition - discussion points to follow (at some future stage).

Lists of Abstract Games . . . . 

Games I own

3D Noughts & Crosses Elevation Interaction Push The Power Game
Blockade Ergo Intrigue Quandary Thorns
Camelot Foxy Isolation Queen Bee Trap
Chess Go Jekyll & Hyde Reversi Trapped
Chess in 3D Gobblet 3x3 Junta Shuttles Trax
Chinese Checkers Gobblet 4x4 Kakuro Skirrid Trespass
Colourgrams Halma Kensington Spider's Web Tri Pin
Contact Heads & Tails L-Game S'takatak Tripples
Cube Fusion Hedron Make-Shift Stranded Twixt
Dobutsu Shogi Hex Nine Man's Morris Tac-Tickle Wari
Dominance Hey That's My Fish Othello Take the Brain Xyrixa
Dr Nim Hive Ponte del Diavolo Tank Trap Xyrixa
Draughts Hnefatafl Press Ups Tantrix  

Pencil & paper games

Boxes Citadel Hackenbush Noughts & Crosses Sprouts
Brussels Sprouts Gale Nim Sim Tactix
Chomp        

Games I have played on Boardspace

arimaa dvonn loa quinamid truchet
barca entrapment lyngk qyshinsu tumblingdown
blooms exxit majorities raj twixt
cannon fanorona mijnlieff santorini tzaar
carnac gipf modx sixmaking veletas
che gobblet morelli spangles volcano
checkers gounki octiles stac volo
chess gyges palago stymie warp6
colorito hex pan-kai syzygy y
cookie-disco hive phlip tablut yinsh
crossfire khet ponte takojudo zertz
dayandnight kingscolor proteus tintas  
diagonal-blocks-duo kuba punct trax  
dipole kulami pushfight triad  

Games I have played on igGameCenter

Epaminondas Lines of Action SnailTrail Talpa
Ataxx Fields of Action Neutreeko Surakarta Three Musketeers
Breakthrough Gate Period5 Susan Traffic Lights
Cephalopod Halma Pilare Taacoca Transposition
Clobber Jeson Mor Shakti TAIJI Virus Wars

Games I have played on Zillions of Games

Breakthrough Crazyhouse Chess Go Neighbours Tic Tac Toe
Camelot Dodgem JesonMor Phutball  
Chinese Checkers Fox and Geese Monster Chess Phutball 1-D  

Games I have played on Ai Ai

Adaptoid Chomp Hexapawn Phutball Sim
Amazons Clobber Kemsington