Havana
Havana | |
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Game data | |
author | Christian Freeling |
publishing company | Ravensburger |
Publishing year | 1981 |
Art | Board game |
Teammates | 2 |
Duration | 20 minutes |
Age | 14 years and older
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Awards | |
Game of the Year 1981: Shortlist |
Havannah is a strategic board game that was invented by Dutchman Christian Freeling in the early 1980s.
It was shortlisted for Game of the Year in 1981 and 1982 .
regulate
- It is played on a hexagonal board made up of hexagonal fields. There are 271 fields if there are ten fields on each side of the board. Other board sizes are also possible. 8 fields edge length are widespread, which results in a total of 169 fields. The picture shows a board with eight fields on each side.
- The board is empty at the beginning.
- The players (“white” and “black”) alternately place a stone of their color on an empty space, white begins.
- The player who first forms a bridge , fork or ring from the stones of his color wins.
- A bridge is a connection of any two corner fields (shown in the picture on the right).
- A fork is a connection of three sides of the board, whereby the corner fields are not counted to the sides (in the picture on the left).
- A ring is a self-contained connection that encloses at least one field within it (in the center of the picture). It does not matter whether and by which player the enclosed fields are occupied.
- If all fields are occupied without a player being able to form one of these three structures, the game ends in a draw.
properties
- The game is cycle-free. A game situation cannot be repeated because the number of stones increases with each move.
- A tie is possible, but very seldom in practice.
Web links
- Havannah in the Luding games database
- Havannah in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)