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Jul 15, 2026·How to play·05:53·203·Watch on YouTube

Polytaire is a rare jump-and-capture abstract strategy board game!

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Watch “Polytaire is a rare jump-and-capture abstract strategy board game!,” a how-to-play guide for Polytaire from NewVenture Games on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by NewVenture Games on YouTube:

In 1966, Danish game designer Piet Hein developed Polytaire. Here's where you can get a copy: https://newventuregames.com/products/polytaire The most interesting things about the game are: (1) every move is a jump-and-capture and (2) you win my jumping your own pieces. Yes, it's just a little bit upside down. Still, a deeper game than it might seem on the surface. Click here for "How To Play" game videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcuNwI2XUBfCzIi7hLxvAI2cvkX1ayxlM&si=WdGUFVuYBZ-8M3vA Click here for Game History videos: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcuNwI2XUBfBp6oQ1_pMfqqA4EKNWkb4S&si=zcXatv5D9Uz03qRP ...and be sure to visit us elsewhere: https://newventuregames.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/NewVentureGames Learn more about the game at BGG: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/73530/polytaire ____________ #boardgames #familygames #gamehistory #ancientgames #vintagegames #tabletop #newventure #howtoplay

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Polytaire

Polytaire

1966·Piet Hein

1 - 2 players
0 min

About Polytaire, from BoardGameGeek:

POLYTAIRE is an expansion of -the ancient solo. game Solitaire and thus it is partly: a more richly varied game for one player and partly: a game for two players based on the same principles, but of such a nature that it can be played quite straightforwardly or so strategically that one thinks several moves in advance just as in chess. THE POLYTAIRE BOARD is played on a board which like that of Solitaire has 37 squares or holes, but in contrast to Solitaire these are placed in a triangular pattern giving a hexagonal board. How was I to untie the knot and entice the balls` out into the open? The solution was quite simple: let the ` aim of the game be to remove as many as possible of one's own balls from the board - a principle which is far simpler and more logical and should be the more obvious solution as it is more closely related to the principle in Solitaire. It is worth mentioning how richly varied and free from boring interludes is the simple-game which hereby evolved when compared, for example, with Chinese Chequers, especially considering how much smaller area - 37 holes as against, 121. [From the rulebook]

Designer

Piet Hein

Publisher

Parker Brothers

Categories

Abstract Strategy
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Polytaire

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