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Jun 5, 2024·How to play·11:49·0·Watch on YouTube

Pentalpha! How many games can we play on this stellar geometric pattern?

NewVenture Games

NewVenture Games

Watch “Pentalpha! How many games can we play on this stellar geometric pattern?,” a how-to-play guide for Lone Star from NewVenture Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by NewVenture Games on YouTube:

The use of a pentagram for playing games appears to be thousands of years old, including an interesting solo game from the ancient Greeks, a hunt game from India, and several 20th-century challenges as well. Join me in this week's video to explore some of these games! 00:00 Introductory stuff 01:44 How to play Pentalpha - the ancient Greek puzzle game 02:40 Star Solitaire - the familiar jump-and-capture solitaire game 04:06 How to play Lam Turki from Central India 04:42 Kaooa - an Indian hunt game played on the same board 07:35 How to play three different games with the vintage Lone Star game (1940s) Purchase a copy here: https://newventuregames.com/products/pentalpha We can also be found here: https://newventuregames.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/NewVentureGames and be sure to play every day! See Lone Star at BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/422638/lone-star

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Lone Star

Lone Star

1892

1 - 2 players
10 - 30 min

About Lone Star, from BoardGameGeek:

From the game box: "Lots of fun for every one" Lone Star is a game published in the 1940s by the Starcraft / Star Mfg. Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. It's a peg game on a pentagram with 31 holes. It was originally patented and published in 1892 by Charles H. Rickert. The solitaire version is exactly what one would expect: Place a peg in every hole on the board except the center hole. Each turn is then a jump-and-capture move following the lines on the board until no more jumps can be made. The ultimate goal in this game is to leave only one peg on the board and it's in the center hole. The two-player game is set up the same way, and moves are always single jump-and-capture moves, but the objective is to be the last player able to jump a peg. The final variation for Lone Star is a capturing competition. Again, the set up is the same and every move the two players make must be a jump-and-capture move. The major change is that chain jumps are allowed. The winner is the player who captures the most pegs when no more jumps can be made.

Artist

David McCord

Publisher

NewVenture Games

Categories

Abstract StrategyPuzzle

Mechanics

Player Elimination
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