Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
I have a passion for playing Backgammon and Chess, and Lois & I will often play a board instead of watching the television. Recently Lois & I took up playing Hnefatafl; The Viking Game I bought a set from the Jorvik Viking centre gift shop during our recent visit to York.
We are finding it an enthralling board game, and although we are only beginners our skills are improving. The moves are very simple: every piece on the board has a straight line move the same as a Rook in a game of Chess, and any amount of free squares can be covered in that move. The attackers objective is to block in the King piece to win the game, and the defenders objective is to move the King piece from the centre square to one of the outside corner squares to win the game. Pieces are taken by blocking them on two sides, with the king being blocked so that no other move is possible. It is a simple, and straight forward game, but requires a strategy which we are finding improves along with our experience of the game.
I wiill often use my Chess set to play variant Chess games, such as Knight's Tour and Tourney (the two player version of Knights tour that I developed and have been acknowledge as the inventor of) along with Mahararjia & Sepoys . We also play Othello, Draughts, Ludo, Dominoes, Triominoes, Pass the Pig and several other board games.
I was wondering what are your favourite board games?
We are finding it an enthralling board game, and although we are only beginners our skills are improving. The moves are very simple: every piece on the board has a straight line move the same as a Rook in a game of Chess, and any amount of free squares can be covered in that move. The attackers objective is to block in the King piece to win the game, and the defenders objective is to move the King piece from the centre square to one of the outside corner squares to win the game. Pieces are taken by blocking them on two sides, with the king being blocked so that no other move is possible. It is a simple, and straight forward game, but requires a strategy which we are finding improves along with our experience of the game.
I wiill often use my Chess set to play variant Chess games, such as Knight's Tour and Tourney (the two player version of Knights tour that I developed and have been acknowledge as the inventor of) along with Mahararjia & Sepoys . We also play Othello, Draughts, Ludo, Dominoes, Triominoes, Pass the Pig and several other board games.
I was wondering what are your favourite board games?