| from the book "Oxford History of Board Games"
Quandary - A game where your available moves are directly influenced by the position of your opponent's pieces (and vice versa). Played on a special 12x12 grid. You need a resolution of at least 1024x768 to have the whole board on screen. Each player has four pieces starting on random squares of his home rank. The goal is to be the first to get a piece to the other side of the board. Pieces move forward one square at a time, straightforward or diagonally, to an empty square which is of the same color as one of the squares directly ahead of any opposing piece. If you have no moves, then you miss a turn. Also included are variants, enabling you choose your starting setup, or play with the board rotated. (Letting black go first results in a slightly different game since the board is asymmetric - it's like rotating the board 180 degrees.) |