Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots

(abstractboardgames.com)

127 points abstractbg | 1 comments | 16 Oct 25 19:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.308s | source

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abstractbg ◴[16 Oct 25 19:12 UTC] No.45609479[source]▶

Thought I would post in celebration of 1 year of my website being online. I've been working on it on and off and currently the website allows users to play Hex, Tumbleweed, Amazons, and Connect 6 against friends or against practice bots. I've been a long time player of some of these games and I felt for a long time that the world could use a few more popular abstract strategy games compared to Chess or Go.

If you try it, let me know what you think. I'm always looking for new games or new features to add :)

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zem ◴[23 Oct 25 00:19 UTC] No.45676792[source]▶

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pentominoes would be a nice one to add (players take turns placing pentominoes on the board until someone cannot make a move). probably one of the variants like callisto or blokus where everyone has the same set of tiles in different colours and there are rules around connectedness

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abstractbg ◴[23 Oct 25 01:32 UTC] No.45677213[source]▶

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Thanks! Will try to figure out a version that I can get permission to add to the website.

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quuxplusone ◴[23 Oct 25 02:44 UTC] No.45677629[source]▶

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You're welcome to "Capture Pentominoes" if you want it!

https://club.cc.cmu.edu/~ajo/free-software/pento/pento.html

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1. zem ◴[23 Oct 25 05:56 UTC] No.45678601[source]▶

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the usenet thread was a fun nostalgic read - something about the character of discussions was different from the ones you get on web based fora like reddit today. (also i recognise your name from rec.puzzles, which was another nice nostalgia moment :))

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