Havana

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Havana
Game data
author Christian Freeling
publishing company Ravensburger
Publishing year 1981
Art Board game
Teammates 2
Duration 20 minutes
Age 14 years and older

Awards

Game of the Year 1981: Shortlist
Game of the Year 1982: 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

Havannah board with the three winning structures
  • 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.

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