Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Deep strategy
How it plays
How does it play?
Isaac is an abstract strategy game for two players. The game is divided in two different phases, placement and scoring.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
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Isaac is an abstract strategy game for two players. The game is divided in two different phases, placement and scoring. During the placement, a player places one of his rectangular pieces on the available spaces of a 10×10 square grid board. During the scoring, each player removes one of his pieces from the board, scoring a number of points equal to the number written on the removed piece times the number of pieces that lie on the row/column from which the piece was removed. A piece can be removed only if it is at least long as the longest piece already removed by the same player. Each player uses his/her own counter to keep track of his/her points but the counter itself is placed on the board (that is, the board is also the score track). The presence of a counter on the row/column from which a piece is taken doubles the points scored. A player can decide to score less points than he/she earned, therefore allowing to place the score counter in a more convenient place. You can play Foundations and Hari with an Isaac set. Source: Author's description Online Play http://www.iggamecenter.com/ - igGameCenter (real-time) Awards: Winner of the NESTORGAMES continuous abstract game design contest Winner of the Abstract Game Design Contest at the Caldè "Tutto è numero" Mathematical Festival 2011