Take-back-toe

Fit

Teach 2.9

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.6

Highly interactive

Scaling 3.5

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 3.5

More strategic control

Table feel

Moderate level of interaction with a good balance between direct confrontation and strategic depth.

Replay value

Take-Back-Toe offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, allowing for different experiences each time it is played. The presence of expansions adds new content and gameplay elements, enhancing replay value. The game also provides deep strategic possibilities and room for players to improve their tactics over time. The player interaction score is average, and the game scales well with different numbers of players. While the easiness to learn score is slightly below average, it still offers a manageable learning curve. Overall, Take-Back-Toe has a solid replayability score of 7.77.

Luck profile

Take-Back-Toe has a moderate influence of luck. While random elements like dice rolls or card draws have a notable impact on the game outcome, players have substantial ability to mitigate the effects of randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game relies on a balanced mix of luck and strategy, with player decisions playing a significant role in determining the outcome. Overall, Take-Back-Toe offers a good balance between luck and player agency.

Overview

Take-Back-Toe is a short abstract strategy game for two players. Starting with a central row of ten chips on four adjacent spaces, players try to move chips to create three stacks of equal height on their side of the board. On a turn, a player rolls a six-sided die, then moves a stack of exactly that many chips to an orthogonally adjacent space on the 3x4 game board. A player cannot reverse the opponent's previous move. For a longer challenge, players can complete a set number of games, alternating the start player and scoring as many points for a victory as the height of the winning stacks. The player with the highest cumulative score wins. The game was the winner of the Thousand Year Game Design Challenge, a 2011 contest to design a game that might still be played a thousand years hence.

Mechanism

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Dice Rolling Pattern Building

Family

2

Components: 3 x 4 Grids Players: Two Player Only Games

Type

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Abstract

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Credits

Designers

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James Ernest

Publishers

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(Web published) Cheapass Games Level 99 Games

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