Focus is an abstract strategy board game, designed by Sid Sackson and first published in 1964 by Kosmos. An abstract strategy game is a board or card game with Perfect information, no chance and (usually two players or teams A board game is a Game in which counters or pieces that are placed on removed from or moved across a "board" (a premarked surface usually specific to that game Sid Sackson ( February 4, 1920, Chicago&ndash November 6, 2002) was a significant American Board game designer and collector see also 1950s in games, 1970 in games This page lists Board games Card games and Wargames published in the Franckh-Kosmos Verlags-GmbH & Co is a publisher of German-style board games Many of their games are translated into English and published by Rio Grande Games, The game has been re-published many times since, sometimes under the titles Domination or Dominio. Focus won the 1981 Spiel des Jahres and Essen Feather awards. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The Spiel des Jahres ( German for Game of the Year) is a prestigious award for board and Card games The award The Essen Feather (German Essener Feder) is an award for German-style board games given at the Deutscher Spiele Preis ceremony at the Spiel The game appears in Sackson's A Gamut of Games in the section New Battles on an Old Battlefield. A Gamut of Games, written by Sid Sackson and first published in 1969, contains rules for a large number of paper and pencil, card,
Gameplay
Two to four players move stacks of one to five pieces around a checkerboard with the three squares in each corner removed, thus forming a 6×6 board with 1×4 extensions on each side. A checkerboard (or chequerboard) is a board on which American checkers is played Stacks may move as many spaces as there are pieces in the stack. Players may only move a stack if the topmost piece in the stack is one of their pieces. When a stack lands on another stack, the two stacks merge; if the new stack contains more than five pieces, then pieces are removed from the bottom to bring it down to five. If a player's own piece is removed, they are kept and may be placed on the board later in lieu of moving a stack. If an opponent's piece is removed, it is captured. The last player who is able to move a stack wins.
See also
External links
- PDF Rules for Domination, Hasbro's re-publication of the game. Death Stacks is an Abstract strategy Board game for two players invented by Stephen Euin Cobb. Hasbro ( is an American Toy company It is one of the largest toy makers in the world second only to the toy giant Mattel.
- Focus at BoardGameGeek
| Preceded by Rummikub |
Spiel des Jahres 1981 |
Succeeded by Enchanted Forest |
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