Detailed Game Information
Alak (Issue a New Challenge)
| Designer/Publisher: | A.K. Dewdney | ||||||||||
| SDG Module Submitted By: | Lexicon | ||||||||||
| Rules: | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alak | ||||||||||
| Date Added: | 2006 Sep 06 | ||||||||||
| Boardgame Geek Entry: | 12153 | ||||||||||
| SDG Wiki Page: | http://wiki.superdupergames.org/games/alak | ||||||||||
| SDG Rank: | 53 (5 points, 17 votes) | ||||||||||
| Keywords (edit): | 2 Players Only, Unique Board | ||||||||||
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An AI opponent is available for this game!
Alak is a close relative of the board game Go played on a one-dimensional "board". It was originally described in A. K. Dewdney's 1984 book The Planiverse; in 2001, Alan Baljeu modified the game to its present state.
| Username | Rating | Comments |
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| Nehb | 2 | |
| rozencrantz | 2 | The game that brought me here. Good clarity and fun tactics. |
| dave_doma | 1 | |
| doobeess | 1 | |
| Laurie_Menke | 1 | I like the game itself and the graphic portrayal of turns. |
| Lexicon | 1 | |
| mathochist | 1 | |
| megamau | 1 | Maybe the perfect play is to go on forever, but the game seems to finish sooner between stronger players. |
| Personman | 1 | Sounds like it ought to be stupid and pointless; isn't, at all. Elegsnt and fun, but doesn't have the staying power of a really great game. I played several times, but that was enough. |
| Aaron | 0 | |
| Cerulean | 0 | Challenging enough to be interesting, but it probably won't stand up to repeated play for long. |
| nycavri | 0 | Neat idea for an occasional game. |
| bigby | -1 | I'm not sure this game is guaranteed to end. My opponent and I called one game a draw as we neared 100 moves with no end in sight. |
| dralius | -1 | |
| jonah | -1 | |
| molnar | -1 | Very few choices, not that fun. |
| unic | -2 | Seems pointless... while the rules might resemble Go, the actual playing of Alak does not. |
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