Uisge
| Uisge | |
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| Game data | |
| author | Roland Siegers |
| publishing company | Hexagames |
| Publishing year | 1984 |
| Art | Board game |
| Teammates | 2 |
| Duration | about 30 minutes |
| Age | from 10 years on
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| Awards | |
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Game of the year : Nice game special award |
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Uisge (pronounced: Wisk , Scottish Gaelic: for water ) is a strategic board game by Roland Siegers . It was published by Hexagames in 1984 . In the same year, the Game of the Year jury awarded it the special prize "Schöne Spiel ".
description
Uisge is a strategy game for two people. The playing field consists of a rectangle made up of 42 squares. Twelve round stones, six white and six black each, each with a bare side and one with a crown, serve as game pieces. The aim is to place your own six stones with the picture side, the crown , facing up.
According to the original by Hexagames, Uisge is a "Gaelic strategy game from the 12th century".
Rules of the game
The stones are arranged at the beginning as shown in the adjacent picture, but all with the bare side up. Then a lot will be drawn to see who gets which color. As in chess , white begins and after each move it is the other player's turn.
There are two ways to move the stones:
- Jumping: A stone may jump over an adjacent own or an opponent's stone in a horizontal or vertical direction, provided that the next but one space is empty. A jumping stone is turned over at the same time, whereby a bare stone becomes a crown stone and a crown stone becomes a bare stone.
- Draw: Only crown stones are allowed to draw. You may move to an empty neighboring empty square in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal direction. The crown stone is not turned over.
Rule for moving and jumping: A stone may only be moved if all the stones on the field are still connected to each other in a horizontal or vertical direction. So no stone or group of stones may stand in isolation and it is also not sufficient that one stone or group of stones is only connected diagonally to the rest.
Web links
- Uisge in the Luding games database
- Uisge in the game database BoardGameGeek (English)