Abalone (board game) Abalone (board game) Abalone is an award-winning two-player abstract strategy board game designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi in 1987. Players are represented by opposing black and white marbles on a hexagonal board with the objective of pushing six of the opponent's marbles off the edge of the board. The game is arranged similar to Chinese checkers but without starting spaces and with a "moat" around the edge of the board. Players start with 14 marbles instead of 10, there are only two "colors", and the starting arrangement is different. But the game also uses a hexagon with marbles
Elgin Marbles the missing elements clearly marked and space left should they be returned to Athens. Outside Greece a campaign for the Return of the Marbles began in 1981 with the formation of the "International Organising Committee - Australia - for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles, and in 1983 with the formation of the ""British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles". International organisations such as UNESCO and the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, as well as campaign groups such as, Marbles Reunited, and stars of Hollywood, such as George Clooney and Matt Damon, as well