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YINSH
YINSH
Close-up of a game in play
Designer Kris Burm
Publisher Rio Grande Games
Don & Co. A "game designer" is a person who designs Video games or one who designs traditional games such as Board games Video Games Designer A video game designer Kris Burm is the Belgian designer of the award-winning GIPF series of Abstract board games He was born in Antwerp Belgium in 1957 A video game publisher is a company that publishes Video games that they have either developed internally or have had developed by a Video game developer Rio Grande Games is a Board game publisher based in Rio Rancho New Mexico.
Players 2
Age range 8 and up
Setup time 0 minutes
Playing time 30 minutes
Random chance None
Skills required Strategic thought

BoardGameGeek entry

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Contents

Rules

Equipment

YINSH is played on a board shaped like a partial six-pointed star with 85 points. The main pieces are black and white rings, of which each player has five. Also used are a number of markers which are black on one side and white on the other (similar to Reversi pieces). Reversi (also marketed by Pressman under the trade name Othello) is an abstract strategy Board game which involves play by two parties on

Object

The object of the game is to remove three of ones own pieces from the game. Since this is the goal of the game, becoming closer to winning necessitates weakening oneself, which considerably complicates strategy - a move which makes one closer to winning may end up being a very poor move.

Placement phase

The game starts with an empty board, and proceeds in two phases. During the first phase both players, beginning with white, places one of her rings on the board on any point. Once each player plays all five of their pieces, this phase is over.

Movement phase

The second phase involves forming lines of five markers, with one's own color face-up. Once this happens (on either player's turn), that player removes the five markers, and also one of their rings. Once a player has removed any three of their rings, they win the game.

A move consists of the following:

  1. The player chooses one of their own rings to move.
  2. The player puts a marker, with their own color face-up, in the middle of that ring.
  3. The player then moves the ring to any unoccupied space, straight along any line.

When moving a ring, the following rules apply:

It is possible, and not unheard of, to make a move which causes your opponent to have a line of five markers in a row. When more than one line is made in the same move, the player who just moved resolves her own lines (if any) first, and then the other player resolves his lines (if any) before making his next move. Lines are resolved one at a time, so if a single marker is shared by two lines, only one of those lines may be resolved (but the player chooses which).

If all of the markers are placed on the board before either player has won, the game ends in draw.

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