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Tessella 2019

Design Michael Lefkowitz Publisher (Web published)
6.3 /10
BGG rating
1.0
Weight
2
Players
2
Best at
10–20
Minutes
0
Age
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About the Game

Tessella is a simple but addictive two player abstract.

Easier to learn than checkers Has a strategic depth similar to chess or go Uses a completely novel board layout and capturing mechanic

Each player has 7 pieces displayed along opposing corners of the board, the goal is to capture 4 pieces of the opponent.

On your turn, you can either:

MOVE to any empty adjacent spot (be it a square or an octagon) or CAPTURE an opponent's piece.

To make a Capture, two of your pieces must be in a line with no other pieces between them. Following this line, you can then capture an opponent's piece, no matter how distant it is, by "shooting" (sliding) the nearer of the two pieces to take its spot.

Filed Under

Categories
Abstract Strategy
Mechanics
Grid Movement Line of Sight Pattern Movement Static Capture
BGG ratings
3
BGG data
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