Teeko is an abstract strategy game invented by professional gambler and games expert John Scarne in 1937 and rereleased in refined form in 1952 and again during the 1960s; Scarne said its name borrows letters from four existing games, tic-tac-toe, chess, checkers, and bingo. Two players, one with four black markers and one with four red, place their pieces in turn onto a five-by-five grid, with Black moving first and unable to occupy the center square; once all eight markers are on the board, play continues by sliding a piece to an adjacent empty space in any direction. A player wins by arranging all four of their own markers into a straight line or into a two-by-two square, and the standard game recognizes forty-four distinct winning configurations, giving it the alternate name Teeko 44 Positions.
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Teeko is an abstract strategy game invented by John Scarne in 1937
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Teeko is an abstract strategy game invented by John Scarne in 1937
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eight markers (four black, four red)
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