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Trax (game)
''Trax'' is a two-player abstract strategy game of loops and lines invented by David Smith in 1980. The game is played with a set of identical square tiles. One side of the tile has red and white straight lines and the other red and white curves. History Trax was invented in 1980 by David Smith, a chartered accountant in Christchurch, New Zealand. Smith published five games between 1970 and 1980, including '' Chess Cards'', a variant of chess in which players could choose to either draw a card (with a chess piece printed on the obverse) or move a card already in play according to the revealed piece's rules. ''Chess Cards'' featured "boardless" play; once drawn, the card could be played onto any flat surface, subject to additional rules that would prevent playing the cards into isolation from the cards already in play. In November 1980, Smith began to develop the boardless aspect of ''Chess Cards'' with a more original, abstract game, which led to Trax. He quickly developed the i ...
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Rotation, or spin, is the circular movement of an object around a '' central axis''. A two-dimensional rotating object has only one possible central axis and can rotate in either a clockwise or counterclockwise direction. A three-dimensional object has an infinite number of possible central axes and rotational directions. If the rotation axis passes internally through the body's own center of mass, then the body is said to be ''autorotating'' or ''spinning'', and the surface intersection of the axis can be called a '' pole''. A rotation around a completely external axis, e.g. the planet Earth around the Sun, is called ''revolving'' or ''orbiting'', typically when it is produced by gravity, and the ends of the rotation axis can be called the ''orbital poles''. Mathematics Mathematically, a rotation is a rigid body movement which, unlike a translation, keeps a point fixed. This definition applies to rotations within both two and three dimensions (in a plane and in space ...
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Abstract Strategy Games
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 to ...
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Black Path Game
The Black Path Game (also known by various other names, such as Brick) is a two-player board game described and analysed in '' Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays''. It was invented by Larry Black in 1960.. It has also been reported that a game known as "Black" or "Black's Game" was invented in 1960 by William L. Black. This "William L. Black" (possibly known as "Larry") was at that time an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, investigating ''Hex'' and ''Bridg-It'', two games based on the challenge to create a connected "chain" of counters that link opposite sides of a game board. The creative outcome of Black's research was a new topological game that his friends (perhaps unimaginatively) called ''Black''. The game was introduced to the public by Martin Gardner in his October 1963 "Mathematical Games column" in ''Scientific American''. Rules The Black Path Game is played on a board ruled into squares. One edge on the boundary of the board is designate ...
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Tantrix
''Tantrix'' is a hexagonal tile-based abstract game invented by Mike McManaway from New Zealand. Each of the 56 different tiles in the set contains three lines, going from one edge of the tile to another. No two lines on a tile have the same colour. There are four colours in the set: red, yellow, blue, and green. No two tiles are identical, and each is individually numbered from 1 through 56. Gameplay In the multiplayer version of the game, each player chooses a colour, so there are between two and four players. Each draws one tile from the bag, and the person who draws the highest number goes first. Each player then takes five more tiles from the bag, and places all six tiles face up in front of them. The first person plays one tile, usually with their colour on it. Play then rotates clockwise. After playing a tile, each player takes a replacement tile from the bag, so that they always have six in front of them. Tiles played must match the colour of the edges adjoining i ...
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''GAMES World of Puzzles'' is a puzzle magazine formed from the merger of Games and World of Puzzles in October 2014. The entire magazine interior is now newsprint (as opposed to the part-glossy/part-newsprint format of the original ''Games'') and the puzzles and articles that originally sandwiched the "Pencilwise" section are now themselves sandwiched ''by'' the main puzzle pages, replacing the "feature puzzle" section. (They are still full-color, unlike the two-color "Pencilwise" sections.) Like the original ''World of Puzzles'' (which is now discontinued), the answer key is now at the rear of the magazine. The new combined title remained on the same 9-issue-per-year publication schedule as the original ''Games''. Games ''Games'' magazine (ISSN 0199-9788) was a magazine devoted to games and puzzles, and it was published by Games Publications, a division of Kappa Publishing Group. History Games was originally published by ''Playboy'' (debuting with the September/October 1977 i ...
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Trax may refer to: Music * ''Trax'' (album), the debut album from Japanese electronic music group Ravex *TRAX (band), a Korean rock band *Trax Records, first house music label owned by Larry Sherman in Chicago * Trax (sequencer), an old MIDI sequencer *Trax (duo), featuring the Danish singer Lise Haavik Transport Automobiles *Chevrolet Trax, a subcompact SUV introduced in 2012 *Chevrolet Trax (concept car), a subcompact crossover SUV concept that debuted in 2007 *Force Trax, a mid-size SUV built since 1988, originally called Bajaj Tempo Trax Rail * TRAX (light rail), a light rail system in the Salt Lake City area Computing * TrAX, the Transformation API for XML (now considered a part of JAXP) *Trax Image Recognition, also known as Trax Retail, a Singaporean software technology company Toys and games * Trax (game), a strategy board game played with tiles *Trax (video game), a shooter game developed by HAL Laboratory * Trax Models, a brand of Australian classic diecast model car ...
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Trax Tile BR
Trax may refer to: Music * ''Trax'' (album), the debut album from Japanese electronic music group Ravex *TRAX (band), a Korean rock band *Trax Records, first house music label owned by Larry Sherman in Chicago * Trax (sequencer), an old MIDI sequencer *Trax (duo), featuring the Danish singer Lise Haavik Transport Automobiles *Chevrolet Trax, a subcompact SUV introduced in 2012 *Chevrolet Trax (concept car), a subcompact crossover SUV concept that debuted in 2007 *Force Trax, a mid-size SUV built since 1988, originally called Bajaj Tempo Trax Rail * TRAX (light rail), a light rail system in the Salt Lake City area Computing * TrAX, the Transformation API for XML (now considered a part of JAXP) *Trax Image Recognition, also known as Trax Retail, a Singaporean software technology company Toys and games * Trax (game), a strategy board game played with tiles *Trax (video game), a shooter game developed by HAL Laboratory * Trax Models, a brand of Australian classic diecast model car ...
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Trax Tile FR
Trax may refer to: Music * ''Trax'' (album), the debut album from Japanese electronic music group Ravex *TRAX (band), a Korean rock band *Trax Records, first house music label owned by Larry Sherman in Chicago * Trax (sequencer), an old MIDI sequencer *Trax (duo), featuring the Danish singer Lise Haavik Transport Automobiles *Chevrolet Trax, a subcompact SUV introduced in 2012 *Chevrolet Trax (concept car), a subcompact crossover SUV concept that debuted in 2007 *Force Trax, a mid-size SUV built since 1988, originally called Bajaj Tempo Trax Rail * TRAX (light rail), a light rail system in the Salt Lake City area Computing * TrAX, the Transformation API for XML (now considered a part of JAXP) *Trax Image Recognition, also known as Trax Retail, a Singaporean software technology company Toys and games * Trax (game), a strategy board game played with tiles *Trax (video game), a shooter game developed by HAL Laboratory * Trax Models, a brand of Australian classic diecast model car ...
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Trax Tile BW
Trax may refer to: Music * ''Trax'' (album), the debut album from Japanese electronic music group Ravex *TRAX (band), a Korean rock band *Trax Records, first house music label owned by Larry Sherman in Chicago * Trax (sequencer), an old MIDI sequencer *Trax (duo), featuring the Danish singer Lise Haavik Transport Automobiles *Chevrolet Trax, a subcompact SUV introduced in 2012 *Chevrolet Trax (concept car), a subcompact crossover SUV concept that debuted in 2007 *Force Trax, a mid-size SUV built since 1988, originally called Bajaj Tempo Trax Rail * TRAX (light rail), a light rail system in the Salt Lake City area Computing * TrAX, the Transformation API for XML (now considered a part of JAXP) *Trax Image Recognition, also known as Trax Retail, a Singaporean software technology company Toys and games * Trax (game), a strategy board game played with tiles *Trax (video game), a shooter game developed by HAL Laboratory * Trax Models, a brand of Australian classic diecast model car ...
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Trax may refer to: Music * ''Trax'' (album), the debut album from Japanese electronic music group Ravex *TRAX (band), a Korean rock band *Trax Records, first house music label owned by Larry Sherman in Chicago * Trax (sequencer), an old MIDI sequencer *Trax (duo), featuring the Danish singer Lise Haavik Transport Automobiles *Chevrolet Trax, a subcompact SUV introduced in 2012 *Chevrolet Trax (concept car), a subcompact crossover SUV concept that debuted in 2007 *Force Trax, a mid-size SUV built since 1988, originally called Bajaj Tempo Trax Rail * TRAX (light rail), a light rail system in the Salt Lake City area Computing * TrAX, the Transformation API for XML (now considered a part of JAXP) *Trax Image Recognition, also known as Trax Retail, a Singaporean software technology company Toys and games * Trax (game), a strategy board game played with tiles *Trax (video game), a shooter game developed by HAL Laboratory * Trax Models, a brand of Australian classic diecast model car ...
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