Abstract Strategy

This includes two expansions for GIPF and one for ZÈRTZ.

Contents:

6 DVONN-potentials for each player
6 ZÈRTZ-potentials for each player
12 ZÈRTZ rings

See the project GIPF wiki page for more details on the potentials' powers.

This expansion can integrate DVONN and ZÈRTZ with the original GIPF game. Additionally, it contains ring pieces to extend the ZÈRTZ board into new configurations.

The ZÈRTZ-potential has the power to jump other pieces. The DVONN-potential has the power to land on top of other pieces, changing their color.

This is part of project GIPF.

This is an expansion for GIPF.

Contents:

6 TAMSK-potentials for each player

See the project GIPF wiki page for more details on the potentials' powers.

The TAMSK-potential is the first additional piece of project GIPF. It is named after the game TAMSK and offers new ways to play GIPF. The TAMSK-potential can grant its owner an extra move during a turn.

A clarifying note from designer Kris Burm about the GIPF Project expansion Set #1 and the TAMSK potentials included with the TAMSK game:

As you maybe know, enclosed in the TAMSK box are 3 white and 3 black TAMSK-potentials. These are samples. You need a minimum of 3 potentials of each color to get a feeling of how they change a game of GIPF. The GIPF Project Expansion Set #1 contains 12 TAMSK-potentials; 6 potentials per color is the standard number to play with. The kit is meant to give players who like playing with the potentials the possibility to get more potentials without needing to buy a second game of TAMSK. That aside, it is also meant to serve those who want to find out what potentials are all about without needing to purchase TAMSK.

This is part of project GIPF.

Expands:

GIPF

GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: in turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in a-row. Players then remove their row and capture any of their opponent's pieces which extend that row. This principle of capturing pieces creates each time again completely changed situations on the board. The purpose is to form successive rows of at least 4 pieces, until the opponent has no piece left to bring into play.

GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well. This project concerns a group of games and extra pieces that will follow step by step. Each game of the project will be playable either separately, or, by means of extra pieces, in combination with GIPF. It concerns a system that makes winning or losing GIPF-related games a strategic factor of the game GIPF itself.

This game is part of project GIPF.

Online Play

Boardspace.net Real time, against humans or robot players

FITS (Fill In The Spaces) is essentially a multi-player Tetris. Each player has an inclined board on which they place different polyominoes, with three, four, or five squares. Cards are drawn from a pile to tell the players which piece to take. The pieces may be rotated and reversed before they slide down the inclined area to dock to other gaming pieces, but unlike Tetris cannot be slid horizontally once dropped. Scoring is based on quantity and configuration of squares left uncovered.

Unlike original Tetris there is no time pressure but like Tetris every player is engaged with his own board.

Official expansion:

FITS Official Expansion

Unofficial expansions:

FITS Expansion #1: MOTS – More Of The Same
FITS Expansion #2: LOTS – Letters On The Spaces
FITS Expansion #3: BOTS – Big Obnoxious Terrible Spaces

Reimplemented by:

Mini FITS

DVONN is played on an elongated hexagonal board, with 23 white, 23 black and 3 red DVONN-pieces. In the beginning the board is empty. The players place the pieces on empty spaces of the board, without restrictions. They place the DVONN-pieces first and their own pieces next. Then they start stacking pieces on top of each other. A single piece may be moved 1 space in any direction, a stack of two pieces may be moved two spaces, etc. A stack must always be moved as a whole and a move must always end on top of another piece or stack. If pieces or stacks lose contact with the DVONN-pieces, they must be removed from the board. The game ends when no more moves can be made. The players put the stacks they control on top of each other and the one with the highest stack is the winner.

This game is part of project GIPF.