Trax is a two-player abstract strategy game invented by David Smith in 1980 and first published commercially in New Zealand and the United States in 1982. The game is played with identical square tiles that show straight red and white lines on one side and curved red and white lines on the other, and players alternate placing tiles edge to edge on any flat surface, extending a shared, ever-growing pattern. A player wins by completing a closed loop of their own color or by forming a line of their color that stretches across the full width or height of the pattern, and a forced-play rule requires a player to complete an opponent's near-win if given the chance rather than choosing freely. A commercial set includes sixty-four identical tiles, and a typical game takes about thirty minutes with no element of chance.
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1. Trax (board game) (Wikipedia)
- Infobox 'players' field: 2
- Infobox date field: 1980
- Infobox genre/type field: "abstract strategy game, tile-based game, connection game"
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