====== Amazons ======

Amazons is a two-player game played on a 10x10 board. Each player has four queens (the eponymous amazons). Each turn, you move one of the queens and then shoot an arrow from your final square. The arrow causes that square to become blocked for the rest of the game. Queens and arrows cannot cross blocked squares or squares occupied by other queens. The winner is the last player who is able to move.

  * Designer: Walter Zamkauskas, 1992
  * Coder: Aaron Dalton (Perlkönig)
  * The Game of the Amazons [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_of_the_Amazons|at Wikipedia]]
  * Amazons [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2125/amazons|at BoardGameGeek]]
  * Rules from Nestorgames at BoardGameGeek in [[https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/215590/amazon-rules-in-english|English]], [[https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/79243/amazonas-reglas-de-juego|Spanish]], [[https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/215589/amazon-rules-in-german|German]], and [[https://boardgamegeek.com/filepage/215591/amazon-rules-in-japanese|Japanese]]
  * Amazons [[https://playstrategy.org/variant/amazons|at PlayStrategy]], a real-time Mind Sports site
  * Play against a strong AI [[https://abstractboardgames.com/amazons/play/|at Abstract Board Games]].

Abstract Play supports three different initial set-ups of the queens around the edge of the board: on opposite halves, alternating pairs of queens, and alternating individual queens.

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====== Amazons ======

A two-player game played on a 10x10 board. Each player has four queens (the eponymous amazons). Each turn, you move one of the queens and then shoot an arrow from your final square. The arrow causes that square to become blocked for the rest of the game. Queens and arrows cannot cross blocked squares or squares occupied by other queens. The winner is the last person who is able to move.

Inventor: Walter Zamkauskas

===== Rules =====

See [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons_%28game%29|Wikipedia: Game of the Amazons]].

==== Goal ====

If the player to move has no legal amazon-plus-arrow sequence, they lose. The opponent is the last player who could complete a turn.

==== Setup ====

10×10 board. Each player has four amazons. Default placement puts each colour's queens on opposite halves of the board.

==== Gameplay ====

Move one of your amazons any number of empty squares like a chess queen (straight orthogonal or diagonal lines). Then **shoot an arrow** from that amazon's new square, again like a queen, onto an empty square. The arrow permanently **blocks** that square.

Amazons and arrows cannot pass through occupied or blocked squares.

==== Variants ====

===== Cross =====

Queens of the same colour sit across from each other.

===== Scrambled =====

Queens alternate colour around the board.

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

==== Version history ====

  * Current engine version: ''20211005'' (2021-10-05). On Abstract Play since 2023-05-01.

==== Abstract Play ====

  * Alternate board textures (bricks, blackbloc) are available.

==== Links ====

  * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons_%28game%29]]
  * [[https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2125/amazons]]