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
Bōku champion five times. Andres Kuusk (Estonia) has won the title four times. The 2005 "Bōku" World Champion was Joey Ho from London, who was aged 17 when he claimed the title after defeating reigning champion David Pearce. Bōku Bōku is an abstract strategy board game played by putting marbles on a perforated hexagonal board with 80 spaces. The object of the game is to get 5 marbles in a row. The game has also been sold under the name "Bollox", and later "Bolix" and won a Mensa Select award in 1999. Invented by Rob Nelson, the former Portland Mavericks left-handed