Player count sorts games by how many people are actually needed on each side. Wikipedia describes association football as "played between two teams of 11 players," a fixed number written directly into the Laws of the Game. This dimension groups games that require the same number of players.
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Defining CharacteristicAbstract strategy games are games like chess, checkers (draughts), and Go: typically strategy games with minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined mostly by player choice with minimal or no randomness, and little to no hidden information. 1 Player Count
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1. Wikipedia: Abstract strategy game
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Abstract strategy games are games like chess, checkers (draughts), and Go. They are typically strategy games with minimal or no narrative theme, an outcome determined mostly by player choice (with minimal or no randomness; deterministic), and in which there is little to no hidden information (also called perfect information games).
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Why is Nim placed in the Alignment and Abstract Strategy Games category?
Nim is a purely mathematical combinatorial game placed here as the closest available neighbor rather than left as its own singleton category.
Alignment and Abstract Strategy Games covers games won primarily by achieving a line, connection or configuration of pieces, such as Connect Four, Gomoku, Hex and Tic-tac-toe. Nim, a purely mathematical combinatorial game, is placed here as the tree's closest available neighbor rather than left as a singleton, since it shares the family's no-chance, abstract-calculation character even though it is not itself an alignment game.