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Oct 13, 2025·Review·10:48·1132·Watch on YouTube

Designer Diary: How I designed my own ABSTRACT STRATEGY game, Surikata

Adam in Wales - Board Game Design

Adam in Wales - Board Game Design

Watch “Designer Diary: How I designed my own ABSTRACT STRATEGY game, Surikata,” a board game review for Surikata on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Adam in Wales - Board Game Design on YouTube:

Surikata is published by Gerhard Spiel & Design. Available to purchase from: https://www.spielewerkstatt.eu/gb/ Game Design: Adam Porter The Meerkat Game - 1, 2, 3, What can you see? Place the termite mounds on the empty gameboard. The first playing piece also brings the meerkat into the game:from its position it always looks horizontally and vertically in all four directions - but never over one of the termite mounds! You cannot place pieces on the spaces it can see! However, a termite mound blocks its line of view and you can place pieces on the spaces behind it. The playing pieces are placed alternately, the gameboard becomes busier and busier. With each turn the meerkat moves to a new position and the lines of view shift accordingly. In Surikata, the aim is to place your own pieces strategically in order to block the spaces your opponent needs.

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Surikata

Surikata

2025·Adam Porter

2 players
15 - 20 min

About Surikata, from BoardGameGeek:

Place the termite mounds on the empty gameboard. The first playing piece also brings the meerkat into the game, and from its position it always looks horizontally and vertically in all four directions - but never over one of the termite mounds! You cannot place pieces on the spaces it can see! However, a termite mound blocks its line of view and you can place pieces on the spaces behind it. The playing pieces are placed alternately, and the gameboard becomes busier and busier. With each turn, the meerkat moves to a new position and the lines of view shift accordingly. In Surikata, the aim is to place your own pieces strategically in order to block the spaces your opponent needs.

Designer

Adam Porter

Publisher

Gerhards Spiel und Design

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Grid Movement
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Surikata

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