Octi is an abstract strategy board game designed by Donald Green and first released in 1999 by The Great American Trading Company. It is played by two or four people on a nine by nine board, with a junior edition for children using a smaller six by seven board. The game has drawn attention for resisting conventional computer chess programming methods, proving computationally difficult for standard game playing engines, and it was featured as a competition category at the 9th Computer Olympiad in 2004. Octi also supports the Smart Game Format used to record and exchange abstract board game records.
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Playing Time PublisherGreat American Trading Company 2 PublisherHeidelberger Spieleverlag 2 Game Category Game Mechanic Game Mechanic Minimum Players Maximum Players Classification
Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Octi (Wikipedia)
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Octi is an abstract strategy game designed by Donald Green for 2 or 4 players.
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The game was first published in 1999 by The Great American Trading Company.
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Octi is an abstract strategy game designed by Donald Green for 2 or 4 players.
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Octi is an abstract strategy game designed by Donald Green for 2 or 4 players.
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- Playing Time: 30
- Designer: Don Green (I)
- Publisher: FoxMind
- Publisher: Great American Trading Company
- Publisher: Heidelberger Spieleverlag
- Game Category: Abstract Strategy
- Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
- Game Mechanic: Square Grid
- Minimum Players: 2
- Maximum Players: 4
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