EinStein würfelt nicht!

EinStein wuerfelt nicht! is a two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Ingo Althoefer, a professor of applied mathematics at the University of Jena in Germany. It served as the official game of a German exhibition marking the 2005 World Year of Physics, held to commemorate Albert Einstein's 1905 papers. Each side controls six numbered cubes arranged on a corner of a five by five board, and a single die roll limits which cube may move on a turn, so players balance a partly random selection against a designed strategy of racing an opponent to the far corner or eliminating pieces along the way. The German title is a double pun: it echoes Einstein's remark that he does not believe in dice, and it notes that once a player is down to one stone, that piece no longer needs a die roll to move. The game has since been studied as a case combining chance with calculable strategy.