Free Y
(2008)
Who is this game suitable for?
Suitable for ages 5 and up. You can play with 2 to 2 players.
For the pros among you, the following mechanics can be decisive: Chaining, Connections, Enclosure, Hexagon Grid, Ownership, Paper-and-Pencil, Pattern Building, Pattern Recognition und Tile Placement...
Game Data
| Average time to play: | 60 |
| Minimum age: | 5 |
| Number of players: | 2 |
| Publisher: | (Web published) |
| Designers: | Bill Taylor |
| Artists: | Unknown |
| Mechanics: | Chaining, Connections, Enclosure, Hexagon Grid, Ownership, Paper-and-Pencil, Pattern Building, Pattern Recognition, Tile Placement |
Free Y is a two-player game that is played on an initially empty hexagonal grid with an odd total number of boundary cells, preferably outlining a near-regular hexagon with odd sides one cell longer than even sides.
On your turn, place a stone of your color on an empty cell. You win if there is a group (set of connected stones) of your color such that any region (set of connected cells) outside that group includes less than half of the boundary cells.
Bill Taylor posted Free Y in 2008 on the rec.games.abstract newsgroup.
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Free Y
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