Trimula

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Trimula
Game data
publishing company DBGM
Publishing year 1975
Art Strategy game
Teammates 2
Duration 15 minutes
Age from 5 years

Trimula or arlac Trimula , also 3D-Tic-Tac-Toe , is a board game for two players that the DBGM company sold in Western Europe in the 1970s. It is an extension of Tic-Tac-Toe to three dimensions and is similar to the game Qubic . It is a two-person strategy game with complete information.

Game material

28 balls in two colors, three rectangles with nine circular holes each for the game pieces and four rectangular holes for the four sticks, with the help of which the three-dimensional playing field is built.

Goal of the game

The aim of the game is to create as many “trimula” (equivalent to “mills” in the classic mill game) as possible and to remove opposing pieces from the board until it only has two pieces left. To get a "Trimula", three pieces must be arranged in a 3 × 3 × 3 cube on a straight line. A row can be vertical, horizontal, or diagonal. With the diagonals there are surface and room diagonals. Due to the three-dimensionality, several diagonals are always possible, so that you have to play very carefully so as not to overlook one. Due to the many possibilities to place a "trimula" and the insufficient number of pieces required for this, the game is relatively easy for the attractive person to win and quickly becomes unattractive.

Charm of the game

The main attraction when buying the game was the "futuristic" look of the game at the time. The flat and large playing box shows two people (a woman and a smoking man) playing a trimula game.

Game rules variants

The manufacturer tried to make more interesting game ideas possible on this futuristic-looking board construction through several game rules. A completely different game idea, called “Diagonal Race”, consists of a race between the players, where each player has a single betting space and has to move his stones to the diagonally opposite position from where they reach the goal. Opposing stones can be struck diagonally on the way and blocked indirectly through appropriate placement. Even with this rule of the game, the advantage of attracting people is too clear to keep the game attractive for a long time. The game soon disappeared from the market.

Similar games

Trimula is similar to the rules and optics of the game Qubic , whose version it is reduced by one playing field per dimension. Other similar games are Tic Tac Toe 2D , Sogo and Mill 3D , in which four stones in a row form a mill, but where no opposing stones are knocked out.

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