Here are the actual
games included in this list (97 so far). Each game has a set of icons (position the mouse over
them) and a short description to give an instant feeling of the game
playability. To know more about each game, just click on the
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This section covers abstract board games that can be played with stacking pieces (e.g., games where it is possible to create 'towers', 'stacks' or 'piles'). As in the previous two sections, these games are also played on regular square or hexagonal boards, for two players and with sequential turns.
Here are the actual games included in this list (97 so far). Each game has a set of icons (position the mouse over them) and a short description to give an instant feeling of the game playability. To know more about each game, just click on the
Game |
Features |
ZRF | Game Description |
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| 3 Stooges |
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On a changeable board, make a 3 in-a-row. | ||
| Abande |
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Build limited stacks and keep all together. | ||
| Abstract Chess |
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Simplifying and expanding the rules of FIDE Chess | |
| Abstract Puluc |
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A perfect-information variant of a traditional dice game. | ||
| Accasta Pari |
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Move three pure or mixed stacks into the enemy field. | ||
| Agora |
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Capture enemy stacks or surrender yours until you have them all. | ||
| Attangle |
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Build three unmovable and uncapturable stacks. | ||
| Automaton |
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Create chain reactions to obliterate your adversary! | |
| Avalam Bitaka |
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Be the one who owns more Stacks. | ||
| Avanti |
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Meet the treasure and the safe. | ||
| Bagh Bandi |
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A Sri-Lanka wolf-sheep traditional variant with stacked victims. | ||
| Bashya |
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A Russian checker variant. | ||
| Breakthrough |
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Move to the last row between explosions and captures. | ||
| Byte |
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The 2 out of the possible 3 eight-stacks | ||
| Cash in Hand |
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Deploy stackable stones over the board and capture enemy ones. | ||
| Castle |
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Construct or destruct a goal. | ||
| Chad |
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Breach the Castle and mate the King. | ||
| Chain Reaction |
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Move your stacks until the goal area to gain points. | ||
| Columns of 3 |
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Stalemate your opponent with your triple stacks. | ||
| Contigo |
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Battle in two complementary fields to achieve a 4 in-a-row. | ||
| Corintho |
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On a 4x4 three types of pieces try to form 3 in-a-row | ||
| Courier |
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Move your courier to the last row or capture the enemy one. | ||
| Court |
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A medieval struggle to kill a King and keep the people. | ||
| Dérive |
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Build stacks to reach last row. | ||
| Domination |
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Jump and stack to prevent your adversary to move. | ||
| Dragon |
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Mixing two different Checkers. | ||
| Dvonn |
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Orbiting about Dvonn pieces while capturing opponent's stones. | ||
| Emergo |
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Simplifying the rules of Lasca to its essential features. | |
| Fibonacci |
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Surround the adversary center piece using multiple moves. | ||
| Focus |
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A game of limited stacks and reserve managing. | |
| Force 3 |
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Slide and reshape stacks to make a 3 in-a-row in a 3x3 board. | ||
| Foxy |
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Move your stacks to enough empty cells. | ||
| Game of 5 Fields |
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Position your army or capture their queen. | ||
| Gimel |
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Use your army to capture a set of adversaries. | ||
| Gipf |
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The original game of the GIPF project. | ||
| Gobbler |
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Be the Littles and run. Be the Gobblers and also run. | ||
| Gounki |
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Reach one of your stacks into the adversary' first line. | ||
| Gomony |
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A Checkers-like game, similar to Lasca. | ||
| Good for Nothing |
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A twist between Checkers and Misère Checkers. | ||
| Gro |
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Grow your bacterial army for dish control. | |
| Guard & Towers |
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Use towers to capture the enemy guard or reach the enemy base. | |
| Guerre de Deux Roses |
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Capture the enemy King using phalanx moves. | ||
| Gyges |
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Using shared stacks, move yourself to the last row. | ||
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Emergo |
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Hexagonal variant of Emergo. | |
| Hexit |
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In a growing board, make the most of it. | ||
| Hibryd |
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A game with a multitude of goals | ||
| High and Low |
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Move your army between walls, move walls between your army. | ||
| Inchworm |
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Build your stacks to surround enemy ones. | ||
| India |
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Make bigger stacks but keep some simple ones. | |
| Intercept |
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A soccer-like board game. | ||
| Intermedium |
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Move and twist until you reach and capture the enemy city. | ||
| Kingdom |
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Use your nobility to siege the enemy monarch or reach his throne. | ||
| Kinger |
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A variant mix of Checkers. | ||
| Lasca |
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Build taller stacks and deprive your adversary of valid moves. | |
| Libero |
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An abstract football. | ||
| Mancala |
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The oldest known abstract game! | ||
| Mastery |
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Two complementary goals in a game with zones of control. | ||
| Matches |
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Use the move restrictions to stalemate the adversary. | ||
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Murus Gallicus |
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Make & destroy walls while trying to reach the other edge. | |
| Nonet |
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Try to prevent a balanced board using stacks. | ||
| Notwo's |
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A connection game with stack building and distribution. | ||
| Numeri |
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Use 3 types of stacks to neutralize your adversary. | ||
| Obonto |
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Every move removes a cell. Loses the one unable to move. | ||
| Ombagi |
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Halma variant with restricted stacks | ||
| Outfox |
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Drop & slide to make specific 3 in-a-rows | ||
| Peaceful Resistance |
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Block your adversary with 'harmful' walls | ||
| Persivic |
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Change your stacks to reach the last row. | ||
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Politics |
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A 1893 variant of Alquerque with three types of pieces. | ||
| Pogo |
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Stack the enemy to stalemate him. | ||
| Pouce |
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Move your stacks to the last row. | ||
| Queen Courtier's |
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Make your Queen and King share the same cell. | ||
| Quick |
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Use stacks as colors and moves as walls. | ||
| Ra |
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Move your stacks into the opponent's base. | ||
| Reverso |
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A net of capturing and moving powers. | ||
| Seti |
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Use your 3 types of stones to make it to the last column. | ||
| Shakti |
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A simple version of Chess with obstacles. | ||
| Shoo |
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Mount and dismount travelers to the opposite corner. | ||
| Siegestones |
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Control four neutral stones by influence. | ||
| Splay |
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Bring enemy 'splayed' stones in your first row. | ||
| Splotch |
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Capture ten mutating stacks. | |
| Stacks |
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Search for a arithmetic succession of four stacks. | ||
| Stax |
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An 1919 stacking capture game. | ||
| Step by Step |
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Travel thru rising stacks to reach the center cell. | ||
| Stlts |
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Build mighty pieces to smash the adversary. | ||
| Storm |
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Make yourself unable to move. | ||
| Strike |
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Reshape your army after each capture and go after her King! Aka Fenix | |
| Takat |
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Stalemate your adversary between stacks and states of safety. | ||
| Tessaron |
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Rearrange stacks of a 4D cube | ||
| The Last Captain |
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Sink ships until no enemy Captain survives! | ||
| Tour de Ruche |
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Maneuver your stacks to protect the King's path. | ||
| Tours |
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Create stacks and unleash them against your opponent! | ||
| Tricouleur |
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Capture the enemy army by replacement or sliding. | ||
| Trimok |
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The scissors-paper-rock abstract game. | ||
| UnStack |
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Unstack your initial towers and spread thru the board. | ||
| Wigwam |
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A hexagonal game of checkers. | ||
| Winkers |
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Make one three in-a-row on top of neutral stones. | ||
| Xana |
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Drop, move and split your stacks while building your terrain. |
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