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Paper and Pen Games

Paper and Pen Games

Paper and Pen Games Intro
General Paper and Pen Games
Games Played on Square Grid
Games Played on Hexagonal or Triangular Grid
Paper and Pen Versions of Go
Drawing Games
Word+Number Games
Pencil Flick Games
Paperfold War Games
3M Paper Games Series
Canonical List of Free Print-and-Play Games
100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper
Sid Sackson
Social Paper+Pen Games
Complex Games

Paper and Pen Games

There are a number of games you can play with just paper and pen. Not only do these allow for easy travel games, where
all you need to pack or find are paper and pen, but paper and pen allow for some interesting abstract games where use of a
pen allows for a unique type of game play.

Note that the term "pen and paper" is also used to differentiate traditional role playing games from computer role-playing
games.

papg.com
BGG free-pen-and-paper-games
BGG paper-and-pencil
BGG print-play
Wiki Category:Paper-and-pencil games
rpggeek Print and Play Games
WebArchive runestoneit.com paper games Paper and Pen games
YahooGroups printandplaygames
webring freegamesring1 Free Print-And-Play Games Ring
BGG 3M Paper Games Series
Low-Tech Game Systems by Ron Hale-Evans

incompetech.com/graphpaper Graph paper of all kinds

Books:
A Gamut of Games by
amazon Gamut-Games-Sid-Sackson
BGG a-gamut-of-games
Wiki A Gamut of Games
Hold That Line, by Sid Sackson; an attempt to move "boredom" games away from Tic-Tac-Toe
Cutting Corners, by Sid Sackson; another attempt at a "boredom" game
Paper Boxing, by Sid Sackson
Last Word, a paper-based Scrabble-esque game by Sid Sackson
Patterns II, an inductive-reasoning game by Sid Sackson; see Eleusis for another game in this small
genre
Property, later republished as New York, by Sid Sackson
gamersalliance sidbooks
Super Sharp Pencil Paper Games by Andrea Angiolino
BGG super-sharp-pencil-paper-games 1995
BGG 101-giochi-con-carta-e-matita 2008
Battaglia navale e altri giochi con carta e matita - children's 2008 version
100 Strategic Games for Pen and Paper by Walter Joris
BGG 100-strategic-games-for-pen-and-paper
See Below
Games Pencil Paper by Eric Solomon
amazon Games-Pencil-Paper-Eric-Solomon
BGG the-6-pack-of-paper-pencil-games
Mind-Sharpening Logic Games
luding.org/Skripte/GameData.py/ENgameid/14529
BGG new-rules-for-classic-games - paper games, rules on converting board games to paper and "single capture" Go.
BGG connection-games
Games Kit - 4 Cooperative Pencil & Paper Games by Jim Deacove
BGG games-kit-4-cooperative-pencil-paper-games
Battaglie di carta e matita con le Sturmtruppen by Giorgio Corbetta e Mario Gomboli - Milano, 1979
Gladstones' Games to Go by Jim Gladstones: Philadelphia, 2004
Spiele mit Papier und Bleistift by Karl-Heinz Koch : Düsseldorf, 1988
50 Jeux avec du Papier et des Crayons by François Pingaud e Jean-François Germe : Monaco, 1984
Dizionario dei giochi by Andrea Angiolino: Bologna, 2010
Converting/Making Paper and Pen Games

classicgamesandpuzzles.com Go-Moku

There are many different games which can be played with just Paper & Pen or Paper & Pencil. Beyond the the classic
paper and pen games, you can convert many traditional games into paper and pen. Some converted games require a
change in game dynamics/rules, while some can be played by simply using symbols on paper instead of 3 dimensional
game tokens.

Game Tokens
Instead of game pieces, there are a number of ways to mark your moves:
"✕"s and "⃝s"
"●"s and "○"s - great for games which use a Go Board and Go Stones
Simple symbols: θ φ χ ψ ∆ ∞ ❤ ♦ ♢ # ≉ ⊗⊕⊖⊜⊘⊙⊚⊛⊝☺☹ ⊠⊞⊟⊡ ㆀ + × ✔〤7
✴★
Colored Pens: Black vs. Blue vs. Red vs. Green
Player initials
Stick figures

Capturing and Moving

Many traditional board games allow you to captures pieces and move tokens all around the place. This can be a challenge
with paper and pen games, but you may consider a few options:
use a dry erase board
use gentle pencil marks and a good eraser
Instead of removing a mark, cross it out. This area can no long be occupied/reoccupied.
Change the way the game is played so that marks can not be removed from board.
write very small in the squares so that you can cross out old marks and write in new ones - acceptable when
reoccupying a space is necessary but uncommon.
Give up on the Paper and Pen only concept for that game and use game pieces

Wiki M,n,k-game
Wiki Category:Tic-tac-toe
Wiki Harary's generalized tic-tac-toe

General Paper and Pen Games

Col
Take turns colorizing map without coloring an area adjacent to one already colored
with your color.
Wiki Col
BGG col

Crossline
Connect dots on a circle. Last one to make a line which only crosses one
other line wins.
BGG crossline

Cutting Corners
First player draws a right angle line connecting a side of that player's color
with an opponents side. After than players take turns drawing a total of 3 lines
each. Each line must cross one more line that the previous line drawn. The
winner is the one with the most sectioned off areas that have more sides of that
player's color (denoted by the colored dot shown in the example picture).
BGG cutting-corners
books.google y52rSbeIMkgC

Five Sides
Draw lines to make five sided areas
BGG five-sides
Hackenbush
Line deletion game. Delete lines while keeping your lines "grounded"
Wiki Hackenbush
BGG hackenbush
cmu.edu Hackenbush.pdf

BGG hackenbush

Middleman
Players take the part of traders dealing in tins of some worthy commodity, say tuna. Each starts with a fixed sum of
money and then buys and sells tins of the product with the object of ending the game with more money than his or
her competitors.
BGG middleman

Nim
players taking turns removing objects from one of a number of heaps of similar objects. Each player
must take one or more objects from only one of the heaps. The player who is forced to take the last
object loses.
Wiki Nim
BGG nim
papg 2XN9

papg 2XN9

Quantum tic-tac-toe
Tic Tac Toe with Quantum mechanics
paradigmpuzzles.com
Wiki Quantum tic-tac-toe

Shannon Switching Game

A dot game with two players called Short and Cut. On Cut 's turn, he deletes from the
graph a non-colored edge of his choice. On Short 's turn, he colors any edge still in the
graph. If Cut manages to turn the graph into one where A and B are no longer
connected, he wins. If Short manages to create a colored path from A to B, he wins.
Wiki Shannon switching game

Wiki Shannon switching game

Sim
A 6 dot game where you color and uncolored edge in your own color on your
turn. The goal is to avoid making a triangle between the 6 dots.
Wiki Sim
BGG game-of-sim
arxiv.org/PS cache/cs/pdf/9911/9911004v1.pdf

Wiki Sim

Spangles
Played on a triangle grid. Fill in triangles so that you create 4-tile triangle with your color on the tips, and either
color in the center.
BGG spangles

Spellbinder by Richard Bartle

Wizard dueling game with virtual spells
first published in Sauce of the Nile
Wiki Spellbinder aka Waving Hands
mud.co.uk/richard/spellbnd
gamecabinet.com/rules/WavingHands Waving Hands from Duel
Purpose
contrib.andrew.cmu.edu spellcaster rules
andrew.cmu.edu spellcaster Rules

Sprouts
The game is played by two players, starting with a few
spots drawn on a sheet of paper. Players take turns, where
each turn consists of drawing a line between two spots (or
from a spot to itself) and adding a new spot somewhere
along the line. The players are constrained by the following
rules.
 The line may be straight or curved, but must not
touch or cross itself or any other line.
The new spot cannot be placed on top of one of the
endpoints of the new line. Thus the new spot splits
the line into two shorter lines.
No spot may have more than three lines attached to it.
For the purposes of this rule, a line from the spot to
itself counts as two attached lines and new spots are
counted as having two lines already attached to them.
Wiki Sprouts
BGG sprouts

Wiki Sprouts

Surveyors of the Galaxy

explore as many star systems as possible before running out of
fuel. Ruler needed - but can be made from paper
Surveyors of the Galaxy
BGG surveyors-of-the-galaxy

BGG surveyors-of-the-galaxy

Tennis
Math game
Wiki Tennis (paper game)

Wiki Tennis (paper game)

Tic Tac Toe (aka Noughts and Crosses)

Tic Tac Toe is the quintessential Paper and Pen game. The
goal is to get 3 in a row.

Wiki Tic Tac Toe (aka Noughts and Crosses)

3D Tic Tac Toe
There are a few versions of Tic Tac Toe in
"3D"
 Wiki 3-D Tic-Tac-Toe Video game can be
converted to paper and pencil
BGG 3D Tic Tac Toe
rosenbaum-games.de p0048
scribd 3M-Paper-Games-3-
Dimensional-Tic-Tac-Toe-and-
Snare
spelarch.khbo.be 4037.pdf Game
Scan - German version

Paper and Pen Print and Play Games

There are a few games where having pre-printed game sheets makes game play so much easier.

Blokus Duo
Players place Tetris-isc blocks on a 14x14 grid. Each player has their own starting point 5x5 squares in from opposing
corners. The first placed pice must cover on of the starting places. Each additional piece must touch the corner of of
another piece of the same color, but two sides of the same colored blocks can not touch. Opposing colors can touch.
Players can Pass if they cannot make a move and game ends when neither player is able to make a move. At the end of
the game, remaining, individual squares are counted up and the player with the least amount of squares wins.
BGG blokus-duo
BGG 53386/png
BGG blokus
BGG Gemblo Hex based board
BGG callisto has 3 column which work as placable anchor points.

Connect Shoot Kill aka Connect Capture and Connect Score by Rick Nordal
Box in "aliens" to activate them. Activated aliens and shoot other activated aliens for
points.
BGG connect-shoot-kill
connectcapture.blogspot.ca
geocities alpine rick 2000

Ghoulash
A dungeon crawler similar to battleship in many ways.

Hidden are ghouls, first-aid kits, holes and debris. Fight Ghouls by guessing their weak
spot. Guess wrong and get lose hip points.
ghoulash.com
BGG ghoulash
Wiki Ghoulash: The Last Game on Earth
joystiq.com/2008/02/14/off-the-grid-reviews-ghoulash/
Hey, That's My Fish - paper and pencil version of this wonderful game
Can be done in paper and pen (colored preferred). Place on colored slash through tile you
are on. Add second slash to make "X" to mark the tile as taken. If you don't have
colored pens, you can use your first initial or "X"s and "O"s.
BGG hey-thats-my-fish
heyfish penandpaper v1-pdf
Wiki Hey, That's My Fish!

Join Five (aka. Morpion solitaire, Cross 'n' Lines, Line Game)
connect dots into rows of 5. 1-2 players
The dot matrix can be easily set up on a blank sheet of paper or graph paper, but
preprinted sheets are nice to have.
Wiki Join Five
Wiki Morpion solitaire
BGG morpion-solitaire
printables.familyeducation.com 57806

Pex
Similar to Hex but with fancy board
BGG pex
iggamecenter pex
Rhumb Line
connect radius, arc or spiral on compass rose
Wiki Rhumb Line
BGG rhumb-line

BGG 841457

*Star
Connection game with fancy
board
ea.ea *Star Connection game
with fancy board
Wiki *Star
BGG star
Wiki Star early version of *Star

ea.ea.home.mindspring *Star BGG 1119177

Through the Desert

There are multiple ways to gain points and several ways to win.
BGG through-the-desert
BGG paper through the desert-pdf
Wiki Through the Desert
fantasyflightgames throughthedesertrules.pdf rules

Y
 The Game Y can be played on a three sided hex boards, but was originally
designed for play on a special 3 sided five-connectivity board. The goal is to
connect 3 sides of a sided board.
Wiki Y
BGG the-game-of-y

wikimedia Game of Y.svg

Games Played on Square Grid

Graph paper is great for keeping a lot of games lined up.

incompetech.com/graphpaper

9tka
This game is easily done in paper and pen by crossing out tokens as they enter the board. It is played on a 9x9 board
which is sectioned off into 3x3 areas. Each section has a random neutral token in it.

Players take turns placing tokens around boarder of play area. They then take turns moving tokens into the play area
in a straight line until they stop due to another token blocking further forward movement.

The player with the most tokens in each area gets a point. Player with the most points wins.
BGG 9tka

Battleship (aka Sea Battle, Naval Battle, Flotilla and

Schiffe versenken)
Classic game where you call out coordinates on a grid
and attempt to "sink" your opponent's ships before
they sink yours.

Wiki Battleship game

BGG Naval Battle
rosenbaum-games.de p0044
gamepile 40
scribd Naval-Battle
spelarch.khbo.be 4042.pdf Game Scan - German
version
thebiggamehunter.com/game-glossary
BGG battleships - advanced rules with ground troops

Black Box aka LOGO and ORGO

The goal is to take turn finding the 4-5 hidden "black boxes" on a 8x8 grid. One player (Hider) marks hidden
location of "black box" on that players grid. The opponent player (Seeker) then calls out a number from around that
players grid. The Hider then reports back what happened when a "x-ray" was emitted from that spot. If it is a direct
hit, the x-ray is absorbed and doesn't return. If the path of the x-ray is adjacent to anther hidden "black box", the
path of the x-ray is changed 90 degrees away from the adjacent black box. If the x-ray come in contact with another
black box or travels adjacent to another before it hits the edge of the playing field, it is absorbed or the path of the x-
ray is again redirected.

The goal is to find the location of the hidden black boxes with the fewest amount of x-rays.

Possible outcomes of x-ray beam:

Board Game Paper & Pen Description
Hit Red 'X"
Miss Orange Markers with Matching symbols Numbers of opposing ends
example: "6-13"
Detour Orange Markers with Matching symbols Numbers of opposing ends
Reflection Yellow U-Turn symbol
BGG black-box
hasbro.com/common/instruct/blackbox.pdf English rules

Bløctagøns
BGG bloctagons - connect sides. Bridging allowed - best done with highlighters.

Brique by Luis Bolaños Mures

Connect board game ends. Rules for "escorts"
Need an eraser to play or the rules forbidding recaptures.
docs.google 0B3gpl2WT8ufWNlM3cFpWSGpNcHc
BGG brique

BGG brique

Chomp
Remove blocks of "chocolate" from "Chocolate bar" grid. Player who takes the
last bite in upper left hand corner is "poisoned" and loses.
Wiki Chomp
BGG Chomp
win.tue.nl chomp
spoj.com/problems/CLK/
papg.com/show?3AEA

Connect Four aka 4 In-A-Row

Four in a row. Generally played with gravity.
Wiki Connect Four
BGG connect-four
 BGG 1283423

Connect 6 (aka 六子棋, 六目並べ and 육목) by Professor I-Chen Wu

Wiki Connect6
BGG connect6
connect6.orgg

littlegolem.net

Cram
Players place dominoes (or a line) over two squares. The last player able to
place a domino or line over/through two adjacent squares wins.

One version limits one play to horizontal moves and the other to vertical
moves.

Instead of dominoes and a checkerboards, you can use graph paper or make
rows and columns of dots. These dots can be connected vertically and
horizontally.
Wiki Cram
Wiki Domineering
BBG stop-gate
BBG stop-gate

Crossway
Connect side to side or diagonally.
BGG crossway
Dots (aka Boxes, Dashes, Dot to Dot, La Pipopipette)
Players take turns connecting dots horizontally or vertically. A box is marked with a
player's letter if they close off that box by completing the final side. Player with the
most boxes at the end of the game wins.
Wiki Dots
BGG boxes
"The Dots-and-Boxes Game: Sophisticated Child's Play" by Elwyn R. Berlekamp
Squares - larger rectangular board.
Honeycomb uses a hex board
Squaresville double scoring squares and premarked edges

Freedom
connect many horizontal, vertical and diagonal rows of exactly 4
Wiki Freedom
BGG Freedom

Go
Go is a fantastic and classic game for young and old alike. It can
be played with paper, pencil and gentle erasing or with modified
rules which allow for more Paper and Pen friendly game play.

See our Go Section below for more on Paper and Pen Go

gameplay.

tedgoldman.blogspot ping-pong-vs-table-tennis

Gomoku (aka Gobang;wuziqi ; Five in a Row; Connect 5)

connect 5 game
Wiki Gomoku
Wiki Renju - professional/adult variant of Gomoku
Wiki Connect 5
papg.com 1TN3
BGG go-moku
Similar to:
 CIRQUE
5ive Straight
Take 5
5 in a Row
Renju
Pente
First to Five

Gonnect
Gonnect is in many ways a cross between Hex and Havannah with rules for
territory like Go. Like Go, it has provisions for capturing which makes pure
paper and pen play difficult.

If you are using an erasable board, you can play by regular rules.
Otherwise, you can modify the rules and simply "X"-out captures pieces.
"X"ed out spaces become dead spaces which may allow for simpler play
when erasing is challenging.

Wiki Gonnect
BGG gonnect
di.fc.ul.pt gonnect
WebArchive abstractgamesmagazine.com/gonnect

Hijara
A connection game with numbers in a row, There
are three ways to score points:
4 numbers of a kind in a row - horizontally,
vertically, diagonally scores 10 points.
4 numbers in sequence - horiz., vert., diag.
scores 15 points.
4 numbers in a square scores 20 points.

Wiki Hijara
BGG hijara
sapphiregames.com/online/hijara.php

Hippos and Crocodiles

Fill river play area with alternating hippos and crocodiles. Last one able to fit their animal in the river wins. Hippos
and Crocolides have different shapes to keep the game interesting.
BGG hippos-crocodiles

Konobi
Blank and white player tries to connect vertical and horizontal edges respectively. Diagonally positioned stones of
the same color without horizontal or vertical connections of the same color are considered "weak connections". It's
illegal to make a weak connection to a certain stone unless it's impossible to make a placement which is both
strongly connected to that stone and not weakly connected to another. Crosscuts where there is a 2x2 square with
black and white diagonal setup is illegal.
BGG konobi

Kulami
BGG kulami played with simple graph paper

Lap
guess grid game - similar to battleship. Each player secretly draws dividing
lines on a grid of 8x8 cells, creating four sectors of exactly 16 squares. Players
then take turns gathering clues by asking how many cells in a particular 2x2
square belong to each sector. The game is won by correctly deducing the
opponent's setup.
A Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson
BGG lap
BGG 871811 game discussed here

BGG lap

Mirador aka Watchtower

Players take turns placing 2x2 watchtowers. Watchtowers can not touch other watchtowers - except that like colored
watchtowers can touch diagonally. The goal is to connect a pair of opposing boarders via line of sight between your
watchtowers without your opponent being able to block you. The trick is placing your watchtowers so that they
benefit you and not your opponent.
miradorthegame.blogspot THE RULES OF MIRADOR
BGG mirador

Omega
The final score for each color is calculated by multiplying the sizes of the different groups of that color.
BGG omega

Order and Chaos

The object of the first player (Order) is to complete a line of five Xs or five Os
in any direction. The object of the other player (Chaos) is to prevent this.
September/October 1981 issue of GAMES
Wiki Order and Chaos
BGG order-and-chaos

Paletto
The game starts with a 6x6 board filled with 36 randomly positioned "stones" of 6 colors each. Players take turns
removing stones with at least two vacant sides while making sure that the remaining stones are connected to each
other vertically or horizontally.
A player wins if they collect all 6 stones of the same color or is the last player to take a stone.
http://spielstein.com/games/paletto rules
BGG paletto
BGG pen-and-paper-version-of-paletto

Patterns II
guess the pattern after "peek"
A Gamut of Games by Sid Sackson
Wiki Patterns II
BGG patterns-ii
Note BGG patterns is a card game

Wiki Patterns II

Ponte Del Diavolo

Create islands of 4 blocks and connect with bridges. Islands are worth a single point while connected islands are
worth much more.
BGG ponte-del-diavolo

Quadrant Z
Space battle game where you move starships, take control of star systems, battle it out and
build your own galactic empire - and on paper.
WebArchive boardgames.za.net quad-z
freewebz.com quad-z
BGG quadrant-z

Quarto
Played on a 4x4 grid, players use play symbols with 4 attributes. In the 3D version of this game, it's black or white,
tall or short, square or round, and hollow or solid. The goal is to make 4 in a row.
BGG quarto
BGG pen-and-paper-version-of-quarto
neoparaiso.com/imprimir/alfabeto-secreto

Quentin
A connection game where black tries to connect north and south boundaries while white tries to connect east and
west boundaries. Territories are formed when all interconnecting unclaimed spaces in a region are adjacent to at
least 2 marked spaces. When a territory is formed, these spaces are marked with the color which as more adjacent
spaces. Ties to go the opponent. At the end of a turn, any two like-colored, diagonally adjacent stones must share at
least one orthogonally adjacent, like-colored neighbor.
docs.google 0B3gpl2WT8ufWODd1WHZoRVBFZkU
BGG quentin

Racetrack (aka Vector formula, Vector rally, Vector race, Graph racers,
PolyRace, Paper and pencil racing, or the Graph paper race game)
Use vectors to guide "car" around a racetrack.
Wiki Racetrack
BGG racetrack
BGG bolide
 WebArchive bolide.it bolide-english-rules.pdf
BGG grid-race - rules of oil
BGG tacara
WebArchive terredejeux.org/jeux-dici
sjbaker.org graph racers
ideaexplore.net/racetrack.pdf tracks
bluering.nl/ppracing

Sheep, Dogs and Wolves

Players take turns placing 3 space tiles which have a Sheep, Dog and Wolf on them in that order. Tiles must be
placed adjacent to a previous tile, but in any orientation.
2 dogs adjacent to a wolf scares away the wolf - mark the wolf
Sheep next to a least one unscared wolf is eaten - mark those sheep
Remaining sheep are the final score.
Two ways to play:
Dual - first one player plays shepherd and then players switch for game two. Highest score wins.
Bid - player makes bid to see how many sheep that player can save and increase the bid with each game as
player meet their bid.
nestorgames.com sheepdogswolves
BGG sheep-dogs-and-wolves

Slitherlink (aka Fences, Takegaki, Loop the Loop, Loopy, Ouroboros, Suriza
and Dotty Dilemma)
Wiki Slitherlink
krazydad.com slitherlink Downloadable puzzles

Wiki Slitherlink

Soccer aka Paper Hockey

Grid game - Draw path of ball. The path of the ball can not cross it's own path or the boundary
of the field, it instead bounces off.
Wiki Paper Soccer
BGG paper-soccer

BGG paper-soccer

SOS
Connect SOS words
Wiki SOS
Tic Tac Ku
BGG tic-tac-ku the object is to get 5 Tic-Tac-Toes

TwixT (with modified rules TwixPP)

The object of the game is to make a continuous chain of linked pegs
connecting your border rows. In regular TwixT, links can only go between
two pegs a knight's move away from each other, and cannot cross another
link. In Paper and Pen Twix, connecting lines are not removed, but you can
pass over your own lines. Your own lines can be removed in regular Twix,
but not in Paper and Pen Twix.
Board sizes and spaces and vary.
Wiki TwixT
BGG twixt

Wiki TwixT

Taiji
Place dual sided tiles or drawing to create large boxes of your color.
BGG taiji

Topolo
Place different sized pieces on a board. Largest group wins.
BGG topolo

Trax
Use cross or double curves to create lines or loops
BGG trax

Vimbre
Players place two marks per turn with a goal to connect north and south or east and west boarders. Players have the
option of claiming an opponents mark instead of placing a new mark by crossing out an opponent mark sandwiched
between two of your marks. In paper and pen Vimbre, you can no reclaim and piece - unless you are into erasing.
BGG vimbre
Veptheca
A connect the dots game where you are able to make a single point to point move horizontally or vertically or a
"vector move". Legal "vector moves" are ones where you add the sum of two previous vectors as long as they don't
interest another drawn line. Last player able to make a legal move wins.
veptheca.tuzsuzov.com
BGG veptheca

Xodd
Black places one stone on the first turn, then players alternate placing one or two stones of Either color. The goal is
to have the smallest number of groups. At the end of each turn, there must be an odd number of groups on the
board. Players can pass and game ends when both players pass in succession.
BGG xodd played on Square Grid
BGG yodd played on hex grid

Games Played on Hexagonal or Triangular Grid

incompetech.com hexagonal

Anchor
A territory game where you wrap around enemy and neutral spaces by created 2 or 3 point "anchors".
home.fuse.net/swmeyers/anchor
BGG anchor

Andantino
While only occupying spaces adjacent to spaces already played, connect 5 in a row or
surround opponent within a hex grid. You will need hex paper and can mark the paper
with "X"s and "Os" or "●"s and "○"s or colored in spaces and stars, etc.
Wiki Andantino
BGG andantino

Wiki Andantino

Blue Nile
Place piece adjacent to the last piece to form a river. Last player able to make a legal move wins.
BGG blue-nile

Catchup
The goal is to have the largest group of spaces at the end of the game. Rule make timing of moves vital.

On the first turn of the game, Ketchup must place 1 red stone in any empty cell. Then both players put 2 stones of
their colors per turn in any empty cells of the board until someone makes a group of 2 or more stones of their color.

From then on, the players take their turns placing 2 or 3 stones (in any empty cell) per turn depending on which
player has the largest group of stones on the board:
the player with the largest group of stones on the board must put 2 stones of his color per turn
the player without the largest group must either put 3 stones per turn or pass. The player may not place his
stones such that at the end of the turn his largest group is the same size as his opponent's largest group.