Stratego is a two-player strategy board game in which each player secretly arranges an army of ranked pieces, including a flag and several bombs, on their own side of the board and then tries to capture the opponent's flag while defending their own, with the outcome of each encounter between opposing pieces decided by comparing their hidden ranks. The game descends from an earlier French game called L'Attaque, and it was developed into its now-standard form and commercialized in the Netherlands in the 1940s before spreading internationally through licensed editions, including a long-running Milton Bradley release in the United States.
Facts
Origin YearWikipedia infobox (Stratego): years='1946–present' (exact) Originating Region Governing BodyInternational Stratego Federation 1 Sport
Game Type (category) Game Type (category) Classification
Player CountWikipedia infobox (Stratego) players field: '2' In the Other Atlases
- Also in Geography Atlas: Europe, found in there.
Sources
1. Stratego, Wikipedia
History section
Stratego was created by Dutchman Jacques Johan Mogendorff sometime before 1942.
Lead section, first sentence
Stratego is a chess-like strategy board wargame for two players on a board of 10x10 squares.
Competition section
The International Stratego Federation, the game's governing body, sponsors an annual Stratego World Championship.
History section, 1946 licensing to Smeets and Schippers
After WW2, Mogendorff licensed Stratego to Smeets and Schippers, a Dutch company, in 1946.
L'Attaque section, sale as L'Attaque by 1910
a French manufacturer named Au Jeu Retrouvé was selling the game as L'Attaque as early as 1910.
History section, 1942 trademark registration
The name was registered as a trademark in 1942 by the Dutch company Van Perlstein & Roeper Bosch N.V.
History section, Milton Bradley sublicense
sublicensed it to Milton Bradley (which was acquired by Hasbro in 1984) in 1961 for United States distribution.
Lead section, L'Attaque origin
The game is a slightly modified copy of an early 20th century French game named L'Attaque ('The Attack')
Lead section, objective of the game
The objective of the game is to either find and capture the opponent's Flag or to capture all movable enemy pieces so that the opponent cannot make any further moves.
The contents of the game section, box contents
The game box contents are a set of 40 gold-embossed red playing pieces, a set of silver-embossed blue playing pieces, and a folding 15+1⁄2 in × 18+1⁄2 in (39 cm × 47 cm) rectangular cardboard playing board imprinted with a 10×10 grid of spaces.
Competition section, World Championship history
Stratego World Championships have been held since 1997 and continue to be held almost yearly around August.
French L'Attaque section, La Samaritaine appearance in 1910
In nearly its present form Stratego appeared in France from La Samaritaine in 1910, and then in Britain before World War I, as a game called L'Attaque.
Infobox, players field
2
entity record, description lead (player-count)
Stratego is a two-player strategy board game in which each player secretly arranges an army of ranked pieces, including a flag and several bombs, on their own side of the board and then tries to capture the opponent's flag while defending their own, with the outcome of each encounter between opposing pieces decided by comparing their hidden ranks. The game descends from an earlier French
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