Boku

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Bōku / Bollox / Bolix
Bōku from The London Game Company
Bōku from The London Game Company
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

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)

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