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Mar 19, 2026·Review·10:48·54·Watch on YouTube

YINSH vs. GIPF | Review - Should I Keep Both?

fenirob

fenirob

Watch “YINSH vs. GIPF | Review - Should I Keep Both?,” a board game review for GIPF from fenirob on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by fenirob on YouTube:

Listen as we compare and contrast YINSH and GIPF, two excellent games from the GIPF Project of board games published by Rio Grande. From @boardgamegeek - GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: In turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in a-row. Players then remove their row and capture any of their opponent's pieces which extend that row. This principle of capturing pieces creates completely changed situations on the board. The purpose is to form successive rows of at least four pieces, until the opponent has no piece left to bring into play. GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well. This project concerns a group of games and extra pieces that will follow step by step. Each game of the project will be playable either separately, or, by means of extra pieces, in combination with GIPF. It concerns a system that makes winning or losing GIPF-related games a strategic factor of the game GIPF itself. In YINSH, the players each start with five rings on the board. Every time a ring is moved, it leaves a marker behind. Markers are white on one side and black on the other. When markers are jumped over by a ring they must be flipped, so their color is constantly changing. The players must try to form a row of five markers with their own color face up. If a player succeeds in doing so, he removes one of his rings as an indication that he has formed such a row. The first player to remove three of his rings wins the game. In other words, each row you make brings you closer to victory-but also makes you weaker, because you have one fewer ring to play with. Very tricky! https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/527/gipf

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GIPF

GIPF

1996·Kris Burm

Videos
7
Creators
3

Mostly playthroughs. GIPF is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews and 6 recorded sessions.

2 players
30 - 60 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting

About GIPF, from BoardGameGeek:

GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: In turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in a-row. Players then remove their row and capture any of their opponent's pieces which extend that row. This principle of capturing pieces creates completely changed situations on the board. The purpose is to form successive rows of at least four pieces, until the opponent has no piece left to bring into play. GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well. This project concerns a group of games and extra pieces that will follow step by step. Each game of the project will be playable either separately, or, by means of extra pieces, in combination with GIPF. It concerns a system that makes winning or losing GIPF-related games a strategic factor of the game GIPF itself. This game is part of project GIPF.

Designer

Kris Burm

Artists

Kris Burm, lu'cifer

Publisher

Don & Co.

Categories

Abstract Strategy

Mechanics

Grid MovementPattern Building
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