Col
(1976)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 0 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Paper-and-Pencil...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 1 |
| Minimum age: | 0 |
| Number of players: | 2 |
| Publisher: | Academic Press |
| Designers: | Colin Vout |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Paper-and-Pencil |
"This game is taken from the book, On Numbers and Games, by John Conway (Academic Press, 1976) and is attributed to Colin Vout."
http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/col.html
Using any map of blank regions, players select colors (crayons) and take turns coloring any region which does not border a region they have previously colored. The winner is the last player able color a region.
This is a great use for completed Sprouts games. http://www.boardgamegeek.com/game/7378
A variant named, Snort, allows bordering oneself but not opponents. http://www.cs.uidaho.edu/~casey931/conway/snort.html
Alternative names:
Col
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