Havannah
Havannah is an abstract strategy board game invented by Christian Freeling. It is played on a hexagonal board consisting of hexagonal spaces; a common size is eight hexes to a side (169 total), but ten hexes to a side is common at higher levels of play. Havannah belongs to the family of games commonly called connection games; its relatives include Hex and TwixT. One player plays as Black; the other plays as White. Either may start, but the pie rule is commonly used to keep the first player from having a great advantage. The rules are as follows: Each player places one stone of their colour on the board per turn; play then passes to their opponent.Stones are never moved, captured, or otherwise changed.A player wins when they complete one of three different structures from unbroken lines, or paths, of connected stones, all of their colour:*A ring, which is a loop around one or more points (occupied or empty);*A bridge, which connects any two of the six corners of the board; or*A fork, which connects any three edges of the board; corner points are not considered parts of an edge. An example of all three winning combinations is shown at right. The structure in the centre of the board is a ring; the structure on the left-hand side is a fork; the structure on the right-hand side is a bridge. While draws are technically possible, in practice they are extremely rare. The game was published for a period of time in Germany by Ravensburger. Havannah can be played by email via Richard Rognlie's Play-By-eMail Server.
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