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Checkers Arcade

https://blog.fogus.me/games/checkers-arcade.html

by fogus • 7 months ago

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PaulHoule• 7 months ago

I didn't see this game

https://www.iggamecenter.com/en/rules/foxh

mkoryak• 7 months ago

I'm pretty sure I found a way to always win this one as hounds when I was a kid.

jcynix• 7 months ago

Nice! It describes, among others, Sid Sackson's "Lines of Action" (LoA) from bis inspiring book "A Gamut of Games" which describes a large number of games which can be played with just paper and pencil or a checkerboard.

I always liked these kinds of games, easily self constructible, easy to carry and fun to play.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Gamut_of_Games

And I always bewildered when I see some of these games built in plastic instead, like e.g.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_%28game%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dots_and_boxes

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