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
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