2012Tom McMurchie, Jordan Weisman
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- Creators
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2 - 8 players20 - 40 minLight weight

2005Tom McMurchie
Mostly reviews and how-to-play. Tsuro is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 29 reviews, 17 how-to-play guides, 10 recorded sessions, 7 unboxings, and 6 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Tsuro is a beautifully simple game of laying a tile before your own token to continue its path on each turn. The goal is to keep your token on the board longer than anyone else's, but as the board fills up this becomes harder because there are fewer empty spaces left and another player's tile may also extend your own path in a direction you'd rather not go. Easy to introduce to new players, lasts a mere 15 minutes. Tsuro has an Asian spiritual theme - the lines representing the "many roads that lead to divine wisdom", and the game as a whole representing "the classic quest for enlightenment". This theme is very light and the game essentially plays as an abstract strategy game. The game consists of tiles with twisting lines on them, a 6x6 grid on which to lay these tiles and a token for each player. Each player has a hand of tiles. On your turn you do two things: place a tile from your hand onto the board next to your token and move your token as far as it can go along the line it is currently on, until it is stopped by an empty space with no tile in (yet), the edge of the board or colliding with another player's token. If your token reaches the edge of the board or collides with another player's token, you are out of the game. The aim of the game is to be the last player left with a token on the board. Strategy therefore consists of trying to drive your opponents either into each other or off the board whilst extending your own route in directions that will make it difficult for your opponents to do the same. --description from publisher
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Tsuro has 69 videos from 15 creators: 29 reviews, 17 how-to-play guides, 10 playthroughs, 7 unboxings and 6 other videos. They date from 2010 to August 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Tsuro - How To Play, by Watch It Played", which runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Video Review". 6 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Tsuro - Play Through, by Watch It Played", one of 10 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Tsuro of the Seas, also by Tom McMurchie, or 10 Days in the USA, Resafa and Blokus, which share several of its mechanics. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2015.
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2012Tom McMurchie, Jordan Weisman
2 - 8 players20 - 40 minLight weight
2003Alan R. Moon, Aaron Weissblum
2 - 4 players30 minLight weight
2024Vladimír Suchý
1 - 4 players60 - 150 minHeavy weight
2000Bernard Tavitian
2 - 4 players30 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Tsuro is a beautifully simple game of laying a tile before your own token to continue its path on each turn. The goal is to keep your token on the board longer than anyone else's, but as the board fills up this becomes harder because there are fewer empty spaces left and another player's tile may also extend your own path in a direction you'd rather not go. Easy to introduce to new players, lasts a mere 15 minutes. Tsuro has an Asian spiritual theme - the lines representing the "many roads that lead to divine wisdom", and the game as a whole representing "the classic quest for enlightenment". This theme is very light and the game essentially plays as an abstract strategy game. The game consists of tiles with twisting lines on them, a 6x6 grid on which to lay these tiles and a token for each player. Each player has a hand of tiles. On your turn you do two things: place a tile from your hand onto the board next to your token and move your token as far as it can go along the line it is currently on, until it is stopped by an empty space with no tile in (yet), the edge of the board or colliding with another player's token. If your token reaches the edge of the board or collides with another player's token, you are out of the game. The aim of the game is to be the last player left with a token on the board. Strategy therefore consists of trying to drive your opponents either into each other or off the board whilst extending your own route in directions that will make it difficult for your opponents to do the same. --description from publisher
Designer
Tom McMurchie
Artists
Cathy Brigg, Andrew Hepworth, Shane Small, Imelda Vohwinkel, Franz Vohwinkel
Publisher
Calliope Games
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