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Akimbo
A minimalist connection game where each player can only have one naked diagonal.
Inventor: Luis Bolaños Mures
Rules
Published listing: 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.