Questions tagged [board-games]

A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a "board" according to a fixed set of rules.

A board game is a game that involves counters or pieces moved or placed on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a fixed set of rules. Board games can be based on pure strategy, chance (rolling dice), or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal that a player aims to achieve. Early board games represented a battle between two armies, and most modern board games are still based on defeating opposing players in terms of counters, winning position, or acquisition of points.

Typical board games are chess, go, reversi, checkers, backgammon, abalone, Trivial Pursuit, risk, monopoly, diplomacy.

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What's the maximum number of pegs you can leave on a 15-hole triangular peg solitaire?

Peg Solitaire is mostly known to me as the triangular board with 15 holes and 14 pegs (mostly because of the restaurant Cracker Barrel). The rules are simple: pegs jump each other in straight lines, removing the jumped peg and leaving an additional…
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Best moves for a 7X7 4 queen board

There is a 7x7 board and 2 players, each having 2 queens. The queens can move just like the queens in chess, but cannot capture each other. At the beginning, the first player places both the queens on any 2 different squares. Then the second player…
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50 cm x 50 cm board filling with polygons

Comes up with this puzzle idea while watching the little kids play. Warning first of all - I don't have an answer for it so it might be a joint effort to find out the best answer. Here we go: Materials: 1) a 50 cm x 50 cm board 2) Regular…
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Color Configuration 3x3 board

I came across this question in FB. I tried to solve but unable to get the answer for it. Feeling so demotivated. This is the question: I need to turn the whole board WHITE. Rules of the game: 1.When you select a square, the color of that square…
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Quetzalcoatl 7-12

I have seen some tough puzzles that you have solved. I am hoping that this puzzle will not be hard. Here are the rules: All colored segments of a chain must be on the same color square to solve the puzzle. You can only pull a chain into an empty…
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Are there forced cycles in this game?

Players: Black and White. A crosscut is a 2x2 subgrid with two white and two black stones, in which like-colored stones are diagonally adjacent (and opposite-colored stones are orthogonally adjacent). To swap is to exchange locations of two…
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Traversing a grid

I'm wondering if there's a way to check if every square of a board can be visited such that every time you move to a new square, it can't be in the same row, column, or diagonal as the previous square. If it can, how could I find a sequence of…
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