Slimetrail

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

1. Neto, Joāo Pedro and Jorge Nuno Silva. Mathematical Games, Abstract Games. Dover Publications, Inc. 2013. ISBN 978-0-486-49990-1

2. Slimetrail at the Game Cabinet. http://www.gamecabinet.com/rules/Slimetrail.html

3. Slimetrail at Mancala Word. http://mancala.wikia.com/wiki/Slimetrail