Home›Alignment and Abstract Strategy Games›Player Count›Two-PlayerBrowse ByTwo-PlayerPlayer 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.FactsTwo-PlayerFAQsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonDefining CharacteristicWell-attestedAbstract 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. 1Two-PlayerFilter Results79 entriesSportAllBoard Game (35)Children's Game (1)Puzzle (1)Strategy Game (65)Tabletop Game (1)Origin RegionAllAsia (2)Botswana (1)Burkina Faso (1)Cambridge (1)China (2)Eastern Europe (1)Europe (2)France (1)Germany (2)Ghana (1)Greece (1)Horn of Africa (1)Japan (2)Kenya (1)New Orleans (1)New Zealand (1)Niger (1)North America (2)Northern Europe (2)Somalia (1)South Africa (1)South Korea (1)Southern Europe (1)Sudan (1)Sweden (1)Switzerland (1)Taiwan (1)United States (3)West Africa (1)Western Europe (1)Origin YearAll1595 (1)1856 (1)1889 (1)1899 (1)1937 (1)1942 (1)1949 (1)1951 (1)1953 (1)1962 (1)1968 (1)1969 (1)1972 (2)1974 (1)1975 (2)1976 (1)1977 (1)1978 (1)1979 (1)1980 (1)1981 (2)1982 (1)1983 (1)1987 (3)1991 (1)1994 (1)1995 (1)1997 (1)1999 (2)2000 (2)2001 (2)2002 (1)2003 (3)2004 (1)2005 (3)2007 (2)2008 (3)2010 (1)2011 (1)2014 (1)2016 (1)2017 (2)Derived FromAllNim (1)Three men's morris (1)Tic-tac-toe (2)Playing Time BandAll30 to 90 Minutes (2)Under 30 Minutes (3)Skill or LuckAllSkill (8)Age SuitabilityAllChildren (1)Family (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 29PÜNCTTwo-PlayerPylos (board game)Two-PlayerQuadromaniaTwo-PlayerQuarto (board game)Two-PlayerQuod (board game)Two-PlayerRenjuTwo-PlayerSalta (game)Two-PlayerScore fourTwo-PlayerShannon switching gameTwo-PlayerShax (board game)Two-PlayerShisimaTwo-PlayerSOS (paper-and-pencil game)Two-PlayerSpace shogiTwo-PlayerStar (board game)Two-PlayerSymple (game)Two-PlayerTa Yü (game)Two-PlayerTacTixTwo-PlayerTakTwo-PlayerTeekoTwo-PlayerThree men's morrisTwo-PlayerTic-tac-toeTwo-PlayerTreblecrossTwo-PlayerTwixTTwo-PlayerTZAARTwo-PlayerUltimate tic-tac-toeTwo-PlayerWatermelon chessTwo-PlayerWythoff's gameTwo-PlayerY (game)Two-PlayerYINSHTwo-PlayerShowing 51 to 79 of 79, page 2 of 2.← Previous12FAQsWhy 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.Sources1. Wikipedia: Abstract strategy gametier 2WikipediaAbstract strategy game, lead sectionQuote, Abstract strategy game, lead sectionAbstract 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).View the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.