====== Akimbo ======

A minimalist connection game where each player can only have one naked diagonal.

Inventor: Luis Bolaños Mures

===== Rules =====

Published listing: [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/466041/akimbo|BoardGameGeek: Akimbo]].

A **naked diagonal** is a pair of like-coloured, diagonally adjacent pieces with no other like-coloured piece adjacent to both. A **crosscut** is a 2×2 area with two interlocking naked diagonals of opposite colours.

==== Goal ====

At the end of your turn, win if an orthogonally connected chain of your colour touches both of your opposite board edges.

==== Setup ====

Empty square grid. Default size **13×13**. Player 1's edges are one pair of opposite sides; player 2's are the other pair.

==== Gameplay ====

Place one friendly stone on an empty cell.

After the placement there must never be more than **one** naked diagonal of **each** colour — not even for a moment before a capture.

If the placement completes a **crosscut**, the other friendly stone of that crosscut is **removed**.
==== Variants ====

Sizes **9**, **11**, **13** (default), **15**, **17**, **19**.






===== Okimba =====

At most **one** naked diagonal may exist on the **whole** board (both colours share the same limit). While one player holds that diagonal, the other cannot create another.

===== Further details =====

==== Version history ====

  * Current engine version: ''20260613'' (2026-06-13). On Abstract Play since 2026-06-22.


==== Links ====

  * [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/466041/akimbo]]