Detailed Game Information
Alfred's Wyke (Issue a New Challenge)
| Designer/Publisher: | Andrew Perkis | ||||||||||
| Rules: | http://alfredswyke.blogspot.com/ (Local) | ||||||||||
| Date Added: | 2009 Feb 01 | ||||||||||
| Boardgame Geek Entry: | 37584 | ||||||||||
| SDG Wiki Page: | http://wiki.superdupergames.org/games/wyke | ||||||||||
| SDG Rank: | 39 (9 points, 10 votes) | ||||||||||
| Keywords (edit): | 2 Players Only, Free Placement, Pattern Matching, Shared Pieces | ||||||||||
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Two player game where one plays the Builder, the other the Destroyer. Square tiles are place in 2x2 plots on a 4x4 grid. The object of the builder is to build up a set of two-story 2x2x2 "houses" (four in a row, four square or a majority) while the destroyer is trying to create the same array of empty plots. On each turn, the players select from a one-out-of-five tile placement or removal set (one on each of five different plots, one on each of one and two on one; two on two, three on one and one on one; four on one). Only three are available on any turn, as a player cannot pick one set that has been placed in the previous two turns. Once a plot is completely built or torn down, it is claimed by a player. The first player to claim four plots in a row (horizontally, vertically, or diagonally), four plots in a 2x2 square, have four more plots than his opponent, or to have claimed seven plots anywhere wins the game.
| Username | Rating | Comments |
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| abdekker | 2 | Good game with a clever mechanic for choosing the moves. By carefully choosing which moves you leave available to your opponent, you can often stave off defeat that might otherwise look inevitable. |
| Cerulean | 2 | I look forward to playing this again. Very nifty. |
| captncavern | 1 | |
| goulo | 1 | Pretty neat little game with a nice mechanism of an action just used being unavailable to both players on their next turns.
Strategy includes getting to do the 1-1-1-1-1 action more often than the opponent by forcing him to take some other action when he could do 1-1-1-1-1. |
| neilb | 1 | Interesting game that takes a while to get the hang of. Would be improved by better-written rules. |
| Uglyfoot | 1 | |
| Zotmeister | 1 | Resource management brought to Tic-Tac-Toe. Which is not a bad thing. |
| Aaron | 0 | |
| Draw5PlayAll | 0 | Has some tactics but is slightly confusing. Not unequal forces really, as builder attempts to get each tile to 8 and destroyer wants 0. This could easily be thought of as +4 and -4.
Too much builder advantage for 4x4. |
| molnar | 0 | interesting rule, but not especially compelling. |
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