Games of Soldiers - Table of Contents

While heading the profit of my counsel,
avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances over
and beyond the ordinary rules.

[Sun Tzu, The Art of War - I.16]

This page presents games that are played with Go stones using a regular square or hexagonal board, for two players and played in sequential turns. Most are not related to Go (Go variants are also found at Andre Engels's website and at Sensei's Library).

Here are the actual games included in this list (277 so far, not including variants). Each game has a set of icons (position the mouse over them) and a short description to give an instant feeling of the game playability. To know more about each game, just click on the

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Game	Features	ZRF	Game Description
16!			Drop 3x3 patterns matching those already on board.
3 Musketeers			Stalemate yourself or make 3 musk-in-a-row.
369			Be the 1 to make more 3 and 6 in-a-rows
4D Tic-Tac-Toe			Make as many 3 in-a-rows that you can!
4Squared			Each sector determines the next sector action.
Abalone			Push 6 opponent stones out of the board.
Aboyne			Slide and jump until the opposite corner.
Abyss			Slide enemy stones out of the board.
Abstract Crosse			Lose your pieces in a rotating center board.
All the King Horses			Stalemate your adversary with a set of shared horses.
Alquerque			Play the father of Checkers.
Alva			Wins points between capturing and returning
Anchor			An hexagonal game of territory
Andantino			Drop stones to make 5 in-a-rows or surround an enemy stone.
Annuvin			Capture your opponent makes him stronger!
Antipod			Play balanced hex on a "sphere".
Apex			Connect your two edges, by sliding your stones, and removing the others.
Archers			Move one of your archers to the enemy field.
Archimedes			Capture by multiple range and reach the enemy port.
Aries			Push your opponent's stones out of the board and reach the distant corner.
A Simple Game			Move your stones in a 4x4 arena to make a 3 in-a-row
Ataxx			Grow and jump around your adversary
Atoms			Capture stones with limited move capabilities.
Attract			Attract pieces to achieve a winning pattern.
Attraction			Move your planets to the other edge of the solar system.
Barrier			Move your piece to stalemate your adversary.
Billiards			Slide and bump until the last row.
Biloba			Custodian captures with secondary effects.
Bivouac			Slide and capture to occupy your own home base.
Black & White			Move and jump to make a 4 in-a-row or stalemate the adversary.
Blue Nile			Travel thru the Nile until you find a dead end for your opponent.
Blockdance			Capture by group pivot moves.
Boku			Make a 5+ in a row, while sandwiching enemy stones.
Bombardment			Bomb your path do victory.
Boomerang			Drop patterns to conquer other patterns.
Box Hex			An Hex variant on a 'boxed' topology.
Breakthrough			Reach the last rank, and capture stones along the way.
British Square			Be the one with more soldiers at the end of the game.
Bulo			A 2D NIM game and related variants.
Bunny War			A bunny checker variant.
Can the Sardines			The children chair dance in a sardine's can.
Carreno's Entropy			Disperse your stones to achieve maximum entropy.
Cascades			Use the flow to conquer the bottom row.
Castle			Invade the opponent's Castle and grab the other's throne
Cathedral			be the one to dominate in a Medieval City
Cats & Dogs			Place your allergic pets over the board (original name: Snort)
Cavalieri all'assalto			An army of knights trying to reach the last row
Chameleons			Move your shifting chameleons to capture all the others.
Checkers Gomoku			Remove stones by making 4 in-a-rows.
City			Sliding on one of the possible grandfathers of Chess.
Cleave			Slide your soldiers and capture enemies by custody or intervention.
Clobber			Clobber adjacent stones until no enemy valid moves are left.
Complica			A shifting variant of Connect4
Connect 4			Drop stones to create a 4 in-a-row, in a gravity field board.
Conspirateurs			Play sitting on the chair on a Go board.
Cram			Drop the last domino.
Crockodator			Occupy the three islands.
Crusade			The on/off traditional jigsaw for two players.
Crystals			Grow more crystals than your adversary.
Dao			On a small 4x4 board with running stones, achieve a winning position
Dara			Capture stones by creating 3 in-a-rows.
Dawson Chess			Capture to stalemate your opponent.
Deflector			Deflect your stones to reach the opponent's setup.
Delta			Slide and drop stones to make a 4 in-a-row.
Diagonals			Win points by making diagonals.
Diamonds & Pivots			Make diamond patterns to capture enemy pieces.
Diffusion			Relocate and attack the opponent stones until all of them are alone and dead.
Dispatch			Dispatch pentominoes over the board to achieve territory.
Dodgem			Slide your stones and stalemate the opponent even if you cannot do it!
Doh			A twist on Connect-4
Dominion			A mix between Othello and Ataxx.
Drommels			Add and flip shared stones to make a 4 in-a-row
Duffer			Jump and populate the board.
Epaminondas			Reach last rank before your adversary reaches your own rank.
Evasion			Use a new type of move, the evasion, to get your stones into enemy camp.
Fanorona			The strange and distant relative of Alquerque.
Fascia			Jump and capture while going to the center.
Fianco			Move and capture to place your King on the last row
Fire Drill			Drop and move stones by bumping, to make a 4 in-a-row.
First Attack			The N-queen puzzle turned into a game.
Fission			Slide your atoms and remove your neighbors with atomic explosions.
Five Field Kono			A traditional Korean game of running armies.
Forge			Stalemate your opponent while moving into his ranks.
Forms			Capture by replacement or sliding until you have no moves left.
Forte			Make a four in-a-row using knights in a fort.
Fox & Geese			Slip or trap the fox, depending of who you are.
Frenzy			Use his fishes to feed your sharks, or vice versa.
Froggo			Make a complete cycle for each of your jumping stones.
Galice			A game between Alice and Go
Gauntlet			One player tries to go through the other's defenses.
Gem			A Y variant over a five edge board.
Gess			Dissect chess pieces into 3x3 Go cells, and capture all Royal Rings.
Glass Bead			Control and influence cells to achieve victory.
Global Connection			A Go-like game where only connected groups survive.
Gobs			Capture or recruit the enemy's army.
Goju			Achieve the central positions or prevent your adversary to do so.
Gomoku			Make 5 in-a-row.
Gonnect			Use the Go concepts to connect two opposite edges.
Gosix			Control hexagons to release resources.
Gravity			Make 4 in-a-row on a square gravity field.
Grensholm			Move a Knight from the last row to its first.
Groups			Be the first to join your scattered stones.
Guerrilla Checkers			Different goals for different areas of the board.
GungHo			With ten reusable stones, make a 5 in-a-row.
Halma			Jump as fast as you can to the opponent's corner.
Hasami Shogi			Get stones by custodian capture.
Havannah			Achieve some patterns or connect edges
Hepta			Each played drops a different shape and tries to be the last mover.
Hex			Connect opposite edges
Hexade			Connect or achieve one of several winning patterns.
Hexapawn			A simple "reach the last row" game by Martin Gardner.
Hexgomoku			Playing Gomoku on hexagonal boards.
Hexmeister			Align or encircle gates on a board full of lanes and rings.
Hip			Move and avoid making squares.
Hold That Line			Extend the line until it is not possible.
Holly			Jump over your enemies and capture them asap.
Huntsmen			Capture all opponent's stones, but after each capture, they get stronger!
Hupo			Select the opponent stone to move and reach the goal cell.
In Crowd			A majority force can conquer the board.
Iqishiqi			How to build a shared labyrinth and how to step out of it.
Jack Rabbits			Multiply your rabbits insanely and fill the board!
Jade			A different goal scenario on a Hex board.
Jeson Mor			A simple traditional game to occupy the board center.
Jul-Gonu			Use custodian capture to defeat your opponent.
Jumpin			A simple relative of Halma.
Jumping Beans			A set of mandatory capture races to get the center.
Kanga			A Gonnect game with selected custodian captures.
Kangaroo			Get the most points with your survival stones.
Känguruh			Jump until one cannot move.
Kassle			Drop stones and shift rows and columns to get 5 in-a-rows.
Kefren			Use pivot moves, or just twirls, to capture and reach enemy lines!
King's Court			A big checker variant, where domination of the center is the key to win.
King's Men			Lose your jumping men to win.
Konane			Empty the board until your opponent cannot jump.
Kono			On a 4x4 board, capture until the opponent is unable to do it.
Krieg			On a 4x4 board, move to stalemate or reach a winning pattern.
Lanrick			Conquer the center and reduce your adversary army.
Leap Frog			Jump and wipe out the enemy frogs from your swap!
Lewthwaite's game			Position your stones to stalemate your opponent.
Line 5			Jump until you get a 5 in-a-row.
Linear Progression			Extend your broken line and win by points.
Lines of Action			Connect your stones, by changing their way of move.
Macadam			Slide and jump until the opposite row.
MacBeth			A hexagonal variant of Othello.
Magneton			Repel and attract stones to achieve 4 in-a-row.
Mamichess			Force the King into the corner.
Man In The Moon			A 19th century drop, move and capture game.
Meditation			Recapture your own stones in order to win.
Medusa			Capture and get territory, by sliding your group of stones.
Migration			Move all your stones to the other edge, but as slow as possible...
Minefield			A way to see Othello and Moku games together
Ming Mang			Slide your pieces, flip your opponent stones, and stalemate him!
Mini Push			Slide out (and in) your stones to achieve winning patterns.
Mix'N'Match			Capture equal or unequal stones to stalemate your opponent.
Mod. Ming Mang			Slide your pieces, flip your opponent stones, and secure a greater cell area.
Mole Hill			On a garden field, the mole tries to escape a series of blockades.
Moray Eels			Two strange beings fight to extinction.
Motala Strom			An one-dimensional board to capture and move into.
Moxie			Drop, move and jump to achieve a 3 in-a-row or capture 6 stones.
Mu Torere			A New Zealand traditional game.
Neighbours			Use your neighbors to keep moving.
Network			Build a line of loose connected stones to join opposite edges.
Neutreeko			Make 3 in-a-rows, by sliding stones across the board.
Nevo			Achieve a position at the enemy field.
Nineteen			A NIM-like game with vanishing triangles
NoNet			Be the last to play at a non balanced board.
Northcott's			An old game with another look.
Oling			Reach the opposite corner using a chain of friendly pieces
Olix			Create the largest patterns and win.
Omemom			Place yourself into two enemies.
Ooyoo			Move your army by pairs.
Orbit			A new way to think about territories
Orthokon			Slide stones, change enemies to friends, stalemate your opponent.
Othello			Flip using custodian capture, and get the majority of stones at endgame.
Overboard			Slide all those enemy stones off-board.
Over the Edge			Isolate or throw into the Abyss your enemy stones.
Paddachee			Make the greater number of patterns.
Paradux			Move and swap to make a 4 in-a-row.
Partonia			Erase the enemy using custodian captures.
Patterns			Capture stones by matching their patterns.
Pawnographic Chess			A Pawn race to get a promotion.
Pentagonal 3D5			A three-dimensional 5 in-a-row with neutral stones.
Pentagonia			On a thin cylindrical board, capture or stalemate your opponent.
Pente			Make 5 in-a-row or capture five pairs of stones.
Petteia			Sliding on one of the possible grandfathers of Chess.
Photonic Attack			Play Othello with Photon Phasers.
Phutball			Create a goal path to win the philosophical soccer game.
Planko			Drop dominoes to control adjacencies.
Pleiadis			A drop game with majority restrictions.
Polatty Pressure			Push the ball towards the opponent's goal line
Pompeii			Slide, push and swap to reach that desired Home Base.
Product			Make the two largest groups and multiply their size.
Pure Tac			Slide your pieces to make a 3 in-a-row.
Push			Push stones to get a winning 5 in a row.
Push (II)			Push your stones to get them into enemy camp.
Push 4			Push stones to make 4 in-a-row
Pux			Capture the enemy army by creating stronger groups.
Pyramid 2D			Climb towards the top of the pyramid.
Pyramida			Exit your army thru the pyramid top.
Quad			Drops and restrict moves to make a 4 in-a-row.
Quadrature			Capture enemy stones by 'squaring' them.
Quad Wrangle			A complex variant of Attaxx
Quartetto			Make large enough squares.
Quax			A great game connecting Twixt and Hex.
Qubic			A 3D extension of Tic Tac Toe
Queah's game			A traditional Liberian game similar do Checkers.
Queen's Four			Sliding queens to make a 4 in-a-row.
Quits			Move and slide your army until the opposite corner.
Quixo			Shift stones and empty cells on a Torus to achieve a 5 in-a-row.
Rabbit Hole			Jump and extend in order to reach your hole.
Regio			A simple CGT game where a dropped cell occupies its empty neighbors.
Renju			Make a 5 in-a-row, but 1st player has pattern restrictions.
Renpaarden			Lots of Chess Knights playingg Halma.
Reviser			Two different powers with a same goal.
Ringo			An old traditional game of unequal forces and one fortress.
Rings			Spread your influence and by making empty hex rings.
Rolling			Move forward your stones to make a 4 in-a-row.
Rover			Slide until you occupy the enemy base.
Rrib Bit			Make a 3 in-a-row of chess knights in a central area.
Sabin Rains			A strange variant of Othello on an Hexagonal board.
SanQi			Fighting for your pattern inside shifting patterns.
Scala			Connect all stones while you reach enemy base.
Scalus			Scale your stone structures to capture stones and reach your destiny.
Scatter			Disperse your stones into eight sliding areas.
Seega			An old Egyptian game precursor of Petteia, Latrunculi and Hnefatafl.
Seegover			A modern mix variant of Seega and Othello
Send It			A restricted Go game, with progressive dispatches.
Sidekicker			Move and capture and be the last one to move.
Simultana			Prevent opponent moves, by creating odd/even adjacent cell areas.
Slime Trail			Move the bug until your goal cell.
Smarts			Achieve a second 5 in-a-row.
Snijpunt			Change one row or one color and construct a 4 in-a-row.
Snort			Different colors cannot be adjacent.
Squaredance			Rotate lines of stones and break the enemy.
Squirm			Build the longest string of stones.
Sudden Death			Make a sequence of pieces to stalemate your adversary.
Star			Create stars and merge them to win by points.
*Star			An advanced version of Star.
Susan			Surround one enemy stone.
Symbio			Surround those enemy bodies, while growing and splitting your own.
Taktik			Slide your 4 stones to align them together.
Tanbo			Grow your seeds and stalemate your opponent.
Tandems			Move your army by pairs to the other side
Tara			Connect both edges, by pushing friendly and opponent stones.
Teeko			Reach one of several patterns on a 5x5 square board.
Tempo			Create patterns to move and win by stalemating your opponent.
Tic Tac Toe			The seminal 3 in-a-row.
Toads and Frogs			Move and jump to the other side.
Tonga			Get the three largest groups.
Trellis			A connect game using a checkered board.
Trianon			Avoid making a loose 3 in-a-row.
Trig			Encircle or connect the Pillar with your stones.
Troll			Connect opposite edges, using Othello flipping powers.
Trop			Drop and jump to capture while you can.
The Way of Go			Siege and capture enemy stones using different stone ranges.
Twins			Drop couple of stones respecting a couple of restrictions.
Twirls of Action			Twirl your stones using the opponent strength, and connect them all.
Un			Slide a shared piece and be the last to do it.
Under Pressure			Try to reach the edge has Black, or prevent it has White.
Universe			Be the one to drop the last pentomino.
Unlur			A finely balanced connection variant between Y and Hex.
Vanakriget			Place your army on the last row by moving or letting it be captured.
Vector Powers			Drop stones and then shift them off board to capture.
Verso			A moveable flipping army searching for a 5 in-a-row.
Vilbergen			A fierce battle on a one dimensional board.
Wali			Make 3 in-a-rows to capture enemy stones.
Walking Dots			Making a territory with a starting seed.
Weave			A connection thru one of two types of chains
Welter's Game			Share stones to stalemate your opponent.
Wizard's Garden			Drop, flip and harvest stones to dominate this small garden.
Wong´s Game			Drop stones until no other is allowed.
Y			Connect all the three board edges.
Yin Yang			Be the one with more stones at the 'right' place.
Yote			Capture all the enemy stones by dropping and jumping at the best times.
Zen			A Hex-like and Twixt-like game in a Toroidal board.
Zenix			Win with the longest chain, while respecting Gravity.
Zonesh			Reach the opponent corner with one of your soldiers.