Abalone (board game) and 5 pits on each edge. "Abalone" was published in 1990 and has sold more than 4.5 million units. The year it was published it received one of the first Mensa Select awards in New York, New York. It is currently sold in more than thirty countries. The board consists of 61 circular spaces arranged in a hexagon, five on a side. Each player has 14 marbles that rest in the spaces and are initially arranged as shown below, on the left image. The players take turns with the black marbles moving first. For each move, a player moves a
Lose Your Marbles board. In addition, a match of five will send marbles to the opposing player's board. The game in hard mode has a tactic after the player wins 6 games to change its skill and win every single other game. This cause the player to literally lose their marbles. Due to its simplistic controls, "Lose Your Marbles" can be played with two players with one keyboard. Lose Your Marbles also features a LAN multiplayer mode to connect 2 players over a local network. SEGA boldly claimed "More addictive than Tetris or your money back!" This was not a gimmick - SegaSoft