Entropy (1977 Board Game)
''Entropy'' is an Abstract strategy game, abstract strategy board game for two players designed by Eric Solomon in 1977. The game is "based on the eternal conflict in the universe between order and chaos [...] One player is Order, the other Chaos. Order is trying to make patterns vertically and horizontally. Chaos is trying to prevent this." The game originally employed a 5×5 gameboard, but in 2000 a 7x7 board was introduced to allow deeper strategies. ''Entropy'' was awarded a rare 6 out of 6 by ''Games & Puzzles, Games & Puzzles Magazine'' in 1981.''Entropy'', Mind Sports Olympiad supplement, p 8, The Times, 11 August 1997, online version available from studiogiochi MSO archive/ref> David Pritchard (chess player), David Pritchard called the game "a modern classic". It is sold commercially under the names ''Hyle'' (a 5×5 board) and ''Hyle7'' (a 7×7 board). Rules The gameboard is a square grid of 7×7 cells. A game consists of two rounds. Each round starts with the board empty, ...
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Abstract Strategy Game
Abstract strategy games admit a number of definitions which distinguish these from strategy games in general, mostly involving no or minimal narrative theme, outcomes determined only by player choice (with no randomness), and perfect information. For example, Go is a pure abstract strategy game since it fulfills all three criteria; chess and related games are nearly so but feature a recognizable theme of ancient warfare; and Stratego is borderline since it is deterministic, loosely based on 19th-century Napoleonic warfare, and features concealed information. Definition Combinatorial games have no randomizers such as dice, no simultaneous movement, nor hidden information. Some games that do have these elements are sometimes classified as abstract strategy games. (Games such as '' Continuo'', Octiles, '' Can't Stop'', and Sequence, could be considered abstract strategy games, despite having a luck or bluffing element.) A smaller category of abstract strategy games manages t ...
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