If you're looking for pure strategy, this is it! The rules are the simplest imaginable, but you can break your brain trying to succeed at this game. We hadn't played it in a while, though we used to play it all the time, as you can tell by the condition of the box! When we asked David what he wanted to play for Father's Day, this was his pick, so it is back off the shelf. It works best with 2 players, but you can play it with 3 or 4. Tonight we played with three.
Each player has a pawn and some walls. You start your pawn at the side of the board nearest you, and you win by being the first player to get your pawn to the opposite side. On your turn you can move your pawn one space or you can place a wall. That's it. (One important caveat is that you are not allowed to make it impossible for a person's pawn to reach the other side. You can create a long and winding road for them with walls, but you cannot close off a path altogether.)
Below are a couple of photos from our first round tonight:
Up next, round 2:
I got nearly boxed in, but not completely (because that would have been illegal).
David let Jacob win rather than using his last wall to block him, since I was hoarding my walls rather than sharing the "defense," and David didn't want to let that go unpunished. This is part of the difficulty of playing with three people; you can try to trust other people to do the dirty work of blocking while you conserve your walls, but sometimes that backfires. With a 2-player game it's just all out warfare and none of that funny stuff. But no matter how many players, this is a deeply strategic game!
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