Games of Towers

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 (99 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
	3 Stooges			On a changeable board, make a 3 in-a-row.
	Abande			Build limited stacks and keep all together.
	Abstract Chess			Simplifying and expanding the rules of FIDE Chess
	Abstract Puluc			A perfect-information variant of a traditional dice game.
	Accasta Pari			Move three pure or mixed stacks into the enemy field.
	Agora			Capture enemy stacks or surrender yours until you have them all.
	Attangle			Build three unmovable and uncapturable stacks.
	Automaton			Create chain reactions to obliterate your adversary!
	Avalam Bitaka			Be the one who owns more Stacks.
	Avanti			Meet the treasure and the safe.
	Bagh Bandi			A Sri-Lanka wolf-sheep traditional variant with stacked victims.
	Bashya			A Russian checker variant.
	Breakthrough			Move to the last row between explosions and captures.
	Byte			The 2 out of the possible 3 eight-stacks
	Cash in Hand			Deploy stackable stones over the board and capture enemy ones.
	Castle			Construct or destruct a goal.
	Chad			Breach the Castle and mate the King.
	Chain Reaction			Move your stacks until the goal area to gain points.
	Columns of 3			Stalemate your opponent with your triple stacks.
	Contigo			Battle in two complementary fields to achieve a 4 in-a-row.
	Corintho			On a 4x4 three types of pieces try to form 3 in-a-row
	Courier			Move your courier to the last row or capture the enemy one.
	Court			A medieval struggle to kill a King and keep the people.
	Dérive			Build stacks to reach last row.
	Domination			Jump and stack to prevent your adversary to move.
	Dragon			Mixing two different Checkers.
	Dvonn			Orbiting about Dvonn pieces while capturing opponent's stones.
	Emergo			Simplifying the rules of Lasca to its essential features.
	Fibonacci			Surround the adversary center piece using multiple moves.
	Focus			A game of limited stacks and reserve managing.
	Force 3			Slide and reshape stacks to make a 3 in-a-row in a 3x3 board.
	Foxy			Move your stacks to enough empty cells.
	Game of 5 Fields			Position your army or capture their queen.
	Gimel			Use your army to capture a set of adversaries.
	Gipf			The original game of the GIPF project.
	Gobbler			Be the Littles and run. Be the Gobblers and also run.
	Gounki			Reach one of your stacks into the adversary' first line.
	Gomony			A Checkers-like game, similar to Lasca.
	Good for Nothing			A twist between Checkers and Misère Checkers.
	Gro			Grow your bacterial army for dish control.
	Guard & Towers			Use towers to capture the enemy guard or reach the enemy base.
	Guerre de Deux Roses			Capture the enemy King using phalanx moves.
	Gyges			Using shared stacks, move yourself to the last row.
	Emergo			Hexagonal variant of Emergo.
	Hexit			In a growing board, make the most of it.
	Hibryd			A game with a multitude of goals
	High and Low			Move your army between walls, move walls between your army.
	Inchworm			Build your stacks to surround enemy ones.
	India			Make bigger stacks but keep some simple ones.
	Intercept			A soccer-like board game.
	Intermedium			Move and twist until you reach and capture the enemy city.
	Kingdom			Use your nobility to siege the enemy monarch or reach his throne.
	Kinger			A variant mix of Checkers.
	Lasca			Build taller stacks and deprive your adversary of valid moves.
	Libero			An abstract football.
	Mancala			The oldest known abstract game!
	Mastery			Two complementary goals in a game with zones of control.
	Matches			Use the move restrictions to stalemate the adversary.
	Murus Gallicus			Make & destroy walls while trying to reach the other edge.
	Nonet			Try to prevent a balanced board using stacks.
	Notwo's			A connection game with stack building and distribution.
	Numeri			Use 3 types of stacks to neutralize your adversary.
	Obonto			Every move removes a cell. Loses the one unable to move.
	Ombagi			Halma variant with restricted stacks
	Outfox			Drop & slide to make specific 3 in-a-rows
	Peaceful Resistance			Block your adversary with 'harmful' walls
	Persivic			Change your stacks to reach the last row.
	Politics			A 1893 variant of Alquerque with three types of pieces.
	Pogo			Stack the enemy to stalemate him.
	Pouce			Move your stacks to the last row.
	Queen Courtier's			Make your Queen and King share the same cell.
	Quick			Use stacks as colors and moves as walls.
	Quintun			A game where groups need to connect growing and shifting targets.
	Ra			Move your stacks into the opponent's base.
	Reverso			A net of capturing and moving powers.
	Seti			Use your 3 types of stones to make it to the last column.
	Shakti			A simple version of Chess with obstacles.
	Shoo			Mount and dismount travelers to the opposite corner.
	Siegestones			Control four neutral stones by influence.
	Splay			Bring enemy 'splayed' stones in your first row.
	Splotch			Capture ten mutating stacks.
	Stacks			Search for a arithmetic succession of four stacks.
	Stax			An 1919 stacking capture game.
	Step by Step			Travel thru rising stacks to reach the center cell.
	Stlts			Build mighty pieces to smash the adversary.
	Storm			Make yourself unable to move.
	Strike			Reshape your army after each capture and go after her King! Aka Fenix
	Takat			Stalemate your adversary between stacks and states of safety.
	Tessaron			Rearrange stacks of a 4D cube
	The Last Captain			Sink ships until no enemy Captain survives!
	Tour de Ruche			Maneuver your stacks to protect the King's path.
	Tours			Create stacks and unleash them against your opponent!
	Tricouleur			Capture the enemy army by replacement or sliding.
	Tricouleur Hexxagon			A Rock-Paper-Scissor approach for Hexxagon.
	Trimok			The scissors-paper-rock abstract game.
	UnStack			Unstack your initial towers and spread thru the board.
	Wigwam			A hexagonal game of checkers.
	Winkers			Make one three in-a-row on top of neutral stones.
	Xana			Drop, move and split your stacks while building your terrain.

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