This year, the choice of the best game has been easy. Rarely happens that someone manages to find something new essentially different from anything known, but when this happens is revolutionary.
When you think that nothing can surprise you (especially in the abstract games) always ends up leaving something. It is this case is not just a game, this is a metagame.
I spoke once on this blog from a curious game called Papagra pattern formation. The idea was great but the victory condition was too poor. Surely some thought to exploit this idea to get a better game, but possibly the most interest was put Nick Bentley, the author of Papagra.
surely would realize that you can put a lot of victory conditions and in a game as simple as putting a chip of any color available on an empty square on the board, the victory condition is everything. But you do not merely a victory condition, what if a player proposes a condition and the other decides whether to charge to get it or that the rival did not? This is the new game from Nick and the best game of this year's "Ninja Mind." Does
go-moku? ! But if a particular case of Ninja Mind! "Objective? Squares on a square board Place 5 sheets black line, before there are 5 white chips online.
Does the hex? It is another case of playing Ninja Mind! On a board as diamond with hexagonal cells, the rule is, to unite the north and south sides with a path of black chips.
A lot of games are known within the Ninja Mind, but maybe not that, the best is all new games that are coming and each time you challenge someone to a game of Ninja Mind you'll be playing a game All-new never before heard of.
As you see I completely agree with the decision of the contest Bolugne-Billancourt.
