Bōku is an abstract strategy board game played with marbles on a perforated hexagonal board of eighty holes, in the connection-game family alongside Gomoku and Connect Four. Two players race to align five of their own marbles in a row while also being able to capture an opponent's marble by trapping two of them between two of their own. The game was devised by former baseball pitcher and Big League Chew inventor Rob Nelson, who conceived it in 1991 while playing for a London club team, then developed and marketed it with team owner Malcolm Needs under earlier names before settling on Bōku. It won a Mensa Select award in 1999 and has been the subject of an annual world championship at England's Mind Sports Olympiad since 2000.
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1. Bōku (Wikipedia)
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Distributed by the London Games Company in Europe and Cadaco Toys in North America, for a time it enjoyed the position of being the best selling two player strategy games in both Harrods and Hamleys.
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Bōku is an abstract strategy board game played with marbles on a perforated hexagonal board with 80 spaces.
View the Source2. Wikipedia (German): Bōku
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Es erschien 1997 als Bōku mit roten und gelben Kugeln bei The London Game Company .
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