Bōku

Mensa Select 1999

Boku is a two-person board game by Rob Nelson. It appeared in 1997 as Boku with red and yellow balls at The London Game Company. Cadaco brought the game with black and white balls out in 1999 and 2001 as Bollox as Bolix.

Game rules

Both players take turns placing balls on a hexagonal board with 80 fields.

Boku belongs to the class of "n -in- a - row " game similar to Five in a row ( Gomoku ) or four wins. There are two main rules:

  • Who can first connect five balls in a row, has won
  • If a player includes two of the opponent's balls with two of his own balls, then he may remove one of the two included balls from the board (and the opponent gets the next train back no ball to the vacant position )

Championship

Since 2000, every year in the framework of the Mind Sports Olympiad BOKU World Cup in England instead.

The winners were

  • 2000 David Glaude (Belgium )
  • 2001 January Palmgren (Sweden)
  • 2002 Ben Pridmore (England)
  • 2003 David M. Pearce ( England)
  • 2004 David M. Pearce ( England)
  • 2005 Joey Ho ( England)
  • 2006 David M. Pearce ( England)
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