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Root Bound

Root Bound 2024

Design Christopher Field (IV) Publisher (Web published)
7.6 /10
BGG rating
2
Players
2
Best at
0
Age
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About the Game

In Root Bound, living plants expand across the board in a struggle for territory. With each advance, future options dwindle, and careless growth can leave a plant tangled, cut off, and withered.

Root Bound won the BoardGameGeek Abstract Games Forum’s “Best Combinatorial 2-Player Game of 2024”.

As an abstract strategy game, Root Bound requires only a hexagonal board and pieces in two colors.

Root Bound draws inspiration from the game of Go, Mark Steere’s Take, Michael Amundsen’s Cavity, and Michael Amundsen and Luis Bolaños Mures’s Lifeline.

—description from the designer

Filed Under

Categories
Abstract Strategy
Mechanics
Chaining Enclosure Hexagon Grid Pattern Building Pattern Recognition
BGG ratings
8
BGG data
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