Hi. I'm Joe Sewell, a Pente fan since roughly 1984. A good friend of mine and I used to play Pente and another game rather frequently.
My note this time involves that other game, a circular Pente style game called Megiddo. Thankfully I found a copy on eBay. It involves getting 6 in a row (either in a line across the 6 rings, 6 along a ring, or 6 in a spiral where no 2 share the same ring or line) or capturing 6 stones (i.e., 3 pairs). It's quite fun, especially if you find Pente easy; those spirals are killers.
I was just wondering if anyone else had heard of it.
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Re: Circular Pente
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Oct 18, 2000, 11:22 AM
Welcome, Megiddo sounds interesting -- similar to hexade where you can get six in a line, a hexagon, or a triangle. Hexade is on a hexagonal board, I'm not sure what the board is like that you are describing...what is the size and shape? Is a ring a hexagon?
Has anyone played Boku? (also hexagonal board, five in a row, but remove only ONE of a captured pair)?
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Re: Circular Pente
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Jan 17, 2007, 6:27 AM
megiddo is simply a '3d' version of pente and is actually quite fun and intensely strategic. spirals can be soo hard to foresee as well as circles. Radii are the simplest obviously. i own the tube version of the game from 1985, and love it. of course ive played pente much longer and am more developed in the game so it still retains its special place on the shelf, but megiddo is a wonderfully challenging variation of the game.
have you come to develop much strategy for the game yet?
