Slimetrail
Slimetrail Opening
Alternate Names
No. of Players
Two
Equipment
A hexagonal diamond board with 10 hexagons per side, one white stone and 75 black stones are required for play. It may be useful to specially designate the two cells that lie at the extreme north and south points of the board.
History
Slimetrail was invented by Bill Taylor of New Zealand in 1992. Slimetrail may be said to be akin to bringing light bikes from Tron to an abstract board game setting.
Objective
Play
Strategy
Slimetrail has a Nim-feel to it in terms of its potential to be mathematically analyzed.
Variations
Sources
Neto, Joāo Pedro and Jorge Nuno Silva. Mathematical Games, Abstract Games. Dover Publications, Inc. 2013. ISBN 978-0-486-49990-1
Slimetrail at the Game Cabinet. http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Slimetrail.html
Slimetrail at Mancala Word. http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Slimetrail