Home›Alignment and Abstract Strategy Games›Sport›Board GameBrowse ByBoard GameThis dimension links a game to the wider sport family it belongs to. Wikipedia describes rugby football as "a type of football, a team sport which developed in the nineteenth century in the United Kingdom," placing it within the broader football family alongside association football and Australian rules. Browsing by sport groups games that share the same parent sport.FactsBoard GameFAQsSourcesComments (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. 1Board GameFilter Results40 entriesPlayer CountAllSmall Group (3-6 Players) (6)Two-Player (35)Origin RegionAllAsia (1)Botswana (1)Burkina Faso (1)Cambridge (1)China (1)Eastern Europe (1)France (1)Germany (1)Ghana (1)Horn of Africa (1)New Orleans (1)New Zealand (1)Niger (1)North America (1)Northern Europe (1)Somalia (1)South Africa (1)South Korea (1)Southern Europe (1)Sudan (1)Taiwan (1)United States (2)West Africa (1)Western Europe (1)Origin YearAll1595 (1)1856 (1)1925 (1)1949 (1)1953 (1)1962 (1)1968 (1)1972 (2)1974 (1)1975 (1)1976 (1)1978 (1)1979 (1)1983 (1)1985 (1)1990 (1)1994 (1)1995 (1)1999 (1)2000 (1)2002 (1)2003 (2)2005 (2)2008 (3)2017 (1)Derived FromAllNim (1)Three men's morris (1)Tic-tac-toe (1)Playing Time BandAll30 to 90 Minutes (2)Under 30 Minutes (1)Skill or LuckAllSkill (4)Age SuitabilityAllChildren (1)Family (3)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 40Achi (game)Board GameAnti-computer tacticsBoard GameArimaaBoard GameAzul (board game)Board GameBatooBoard GameBlokusBoard GameConnect FourBoard GameConnect6Board GameDala (game)Board GameDara (game)Board GameDodgemBoard GameDomineeringBoard GameEpaminondas (game)Board GameGomokuBoard GameHare gamesBoard GameIsolation (board game)Board GameKamisadoBoard GameKhet (game)Board GameMorabarabaBoard GameMū tōrereBoard GameNd gameBoard GameNeutron (game)Board GameNine Men's MorrisBoard GameOnyx (game)Board GamePegityBoard GamePong Hau K'iBoard GamePÜNCTBoard GamePylos (board game)Board GameQuod (board game)Board GameRumisBoard GameSantorini (game)Board GameScore fourBoard GameShax (board game)Board GameStar (board game)Board GameTa Yü (game)Board GameTacTixBoard GameTreblecrossBoard GameTwixTBoard GameUltimate tic-tac-toeBoard GameY (game)Board GameFAQsWhy 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.