Quatri

Description

Go-moku like 4x4 abstract.

Starting board for Quatri

Rules

• https://ludism.org/piecepack/org/rules/Quatri.pdf (local copy)
• https://web.archive.org/web/2016/http://www.piecepack.org/rules/Quatri.pdf (original copy)
• QuatriTextVersion

Reviews & Comments

There are actually two different (but related) games called "Gomoku". The traditional Gomoku is a placement game that doesn't allow Quatri like movement but a hundred-year-old Western variant confusedly also named Gomoku does allow Quatri like movement (plus it seems diagonal moves). It seems one of the preferred version of the latter was a version played on a ten-by-ten board where each player gets ten pieces which would also be playable with a single piecepack (with ten Suns/Moons coins versus ten Arms/Crowns coins play on the "points" of a board made with Xiangqi-style rivers or use a tile from an extra piecepack or two dominoes to make a 10x10 board with "cells"). --TrevorLDavis

Easy abstract that can be played by children, or by adults with a little spare time. The minimal size and the symmetry of its setup don't yield much variety (normally it only takes a couple of moves to either end the game or bring it to one of a handful of recurrent positions), but all in all it can bring a quick an easy fix if several rounds are played against the clock.

-- Antonio Recuenco Muñoz

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