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GIPF

#527BGG ↗

1996 · 2-2 players · 60min · weight 2.76 · 3,533 ratings

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ID
527
Name
GIPF
Year
1996
Rank
832
Min players
2
Max players
2
Playing time
60
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.7555
Num weights
229
Bayes avg
6.42804
Average
7.07183
Users rated
3533
Num owned
5830
Wanting
173
Wishing
799
Num comments
1041
Fetched at
Sat Apr 25 2026 16:16:24 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (2)
Grid MovementPattern Building
Categories (1)
Abstract Strategy
Description (871 chars)

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 completely changed situations on the board. The purpose is to form successive rows of at least four 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.

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