ジュンゴ (Jungo)

ジュンゴ (Jungo) is a two player Japanese abstract game. Twin princesses compete using the exotic animals in the castle courtyard. The winner gets to choose which cake to eat first.

Players bring numbered tokens onto the 5x5 square grid, in number order. The game combines the pinching rules from Othello, the area rules from Go and the attacking rules of Shogi, into a new game. Players capture their opponents pieces which they can then use later on. But pieces must be used in numerical order; 1,2,3,4,5 then 1,2...
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