Agon, also called Queen's Guard, is a two-player abstract strategy board game that is notable as one of the earliest games played on a hexagonal grid. The board is made of ninety-one hexagonal spaces in concentric layers, each layer coloured so that a space's distance from the centre is easy to see. Each player begins with a queen and six guards set at the edge of the board. On a turn a player moves one piece a single space in any direction except one that leads away from the centre, and a piece may not land on or jump over another piece. A piece sandwiched between two enemies is captured, and its owner must then place it again: a captured queen goes to any other space, while a captured guard goes to a space on the board's edge. A player wins when their queen rests on the central space with her six guards on the six spaces around her. The Ludii portal classes it as a modern race and fill board game, gives its creation date as 1842 and lists Anthony Peacock as its author.
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Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Skill or Luck Classification
Player Count Sources
1. Agon (Ludii Portal entry)
Rules 1
Agon is played on a hexagonal board made of 91 hexagonal playing spaces.
Description
Agon is a kind of race game played with pure strategy.
Description [player-count]
the game features a queen and six guards for each of the two players.
Creation date
Creation date
1842
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