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Bizingo

Displacement and Capture Games

Bizingo is a two-player strategy board game created sometime in the 1850s in the United States, in which two armies face one another on a triangular grid. Each piece is restricted to cells of its own colour, so on an open board a piece has up to six possible moves to an empty adjacent cell of that colour. A regular piece is captured by being surrounded on three sides. An enemy captain is also captured by three-sided surrounding, but one of the surrounding pieces must itself be a captain. A piece on the edge of the board can be captured by surrounding it on two sides, again only when one of the surrounding pieces is a captain. A piece moved into a cell already surrounded by three enemy pieces is captured at once unless that move itself made a capture. A player wins by reducing the opponent to two pieces.

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Origin Year
1850 1
Designer
(Uncredited) 2
Publisher
(Public Domain) 2
Publisher
Catamount Games 2
Publisher
Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore) 2
Publisher
Geoludie 2
Publisher
Mitra 2
Game Category
Abstract Strategy 2
Game Mechanic
Grid Movement 2
Minimum Players
2 2
Maximum Players
2 2
Classification
Player Count
Two-Player 1
Sport
Game Type (category)
Board Game 1
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Bizingo is a two-player strategy board game created sometime in the 1850s in the United States.
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1. Bizingo game record at the Ludii Portal
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    Bizingo is a two-player strategy board game created sometime in the 1850s in the United States.
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    Bizingo is a two-player strategy board game created sometime in the 1850s in the United States.
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2. Bizingo (BoardGameGeek)
  • Designer: (Uncredited)
  • Publisher: (Public Domain)
  • Publisher: Catamount Games
  • Publisher: Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore)
  • Publisher: Geoludie
  • Publisher: Mitra
  • Game Category: Abstract Strategy
  • Game Mechanic: Grid Movement
  • Minimum Players: 2
  • Maximum Players: 2
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