Boku
Bōku / Bollox / Bolix | |
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Bōku from The London Game Company |
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Game data | |
author | Rob Nelson |
publishing company |
The London Game Company (1997), Cadaco (1999, 2001) |
Publishing year | 1997, 1999, 2001 |
Art | Strategy board game |
Teammates | 2 |
Duration | 20 minutes |
Age | from 10 years on
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Awards | |
Canteen Select 1999 |
Bōku is a two-person board game by Rob Nelson . It appeared in 1997 as Bōku with red and yellow balls by The London Game Company . Cadaco released the game with black and white balls in 1999 as Bollox and 2001 as Bolix .
Rules of the game
Both players take turns placing balls on a hexagonal board with 80 fields.
Bōku belongs to the class of "many in a row" games similar to five in a row (Gomoku) or four in a row . It has two main rules of the game:
- whoever can connect five balls in a row first wins
- if a player encloses two balls of the opponent with two of his own balls, then he may remove one of the two enclosed balls from the board (and the opponent may not put any ball back in the vacated position on the next move)
championship
Since 2000, the Bōku World Championship has been held annually in England as part of the Mind Sports Olympiad .
The winners were
- 2000: David Glaude (Belgium)
- 2001: Jan Palmgren (Sweden)
- 2002: Ben Pridmore (England)
- 2003: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2004: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2005: Joey Ho (England)
- 2006: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2007: James Heppell (England)
- 2008: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2010: David M. Pearce (England)
- 2011: Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
- 2012: Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
- 2013: Andres Kuusk (Estonia)
Web links
- Bollox in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)
- Bōku (English)