Yavalath
Yavalath | |
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Game data | |
author | Cameron Browne |
publishing company | Nestorgames |
Publishing year | 2009 |
Art | Strategy game |
Teammates | 2 or 3 |
Duration | 10 mins |
Age | from 8 years |
Yavalath is a strategic board game for two or three players.
Yavalath and Pentalath , both distributed by Nestorgames, are the first (and so far only) commercially successful games that were not developed directly by humans, but rather created by a computer program . This program called Ludi, developed by game inventor and computer scientist Cameron Browne, uses methods of genetic programming .
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The board is hexagonal and consists of 61 hexagonal fields. The players take turns placing a stone of their respective color on an empty space. You win by forming a straight line of four or more of your own stones. However, if you create a row of exactly three stones and not a row of four at the same time, you lose the game. If all fields are occupied without a row of three or four, the game ends in a draw.
With three players the following also applies: the players take turns, you have to block a possible row of four from the player who then moves, and if a player builds a row of three, he is eliminated from the game, but his pieces remain on the board. You win if you are the first to form a row of four or if both players are eliminated.
Web links
- Cameron Browne's Yavalath Page
- Chapter from Evolutionary Game Design by Cameron Browne
- Yavalath in the Luding games database
- Yavalath in the board game database BoardGameGeek (English)