Ego (1983)

Ego is a very simple to learn yet challenging to play abstract strategy game in which the goal is to jump the opposing player's large pawn (the "EGO") with one of your own small pawns (an "EGOT"). From the game's instruction sheet: "The objective of the game is for one player to jump the EGO of the other player. The EGO is representative of the players’ skill, ingenuity, and adaptiveness as displayed through the players’ defensiveness, problem solving ability or progressiveness through the use of the players' EGOTS." Game contents: -1 wood board with 92 holes, 2 of which are surrounded by a gold ring to mark where the EGO pawns are placed -36 small black "EGOT" pawns -1 large black "EGO" pawn -36 small white "EGOT" pawns -1 large white "EGO" pawn -1 sheet containing English instructions on one side and French instructions on the other This is a purely strategic game with no luck involved, which means that the loser is sure to be left with a bruised ego!