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Dieter Stein on any space on the board.

However, on the first


turn of the game he may not place in the exact
Attangle center (space d4) of the board. After that the
players alternate turns. It is required to always take
Strategy game for 2 players aged 8 a turn. There are two basic turn options:
and up
• Place a piece on the board.
Attangle is a board game with very • Capture an opposing piece (or stack) which
is already on the board.
simple rules. Its fine points reveal
themselves to the players only after
a few playings. Placing Pieces

Components A new piece may be brought onto the board on


any vacant location.
• six-sided game board composed
of 37 tiles Capturing Opposing Pieces
• 100 playing pieces, half black and
half white To capture, a player moves exactly 2 pieces or an
individual piece plus 1 stack of three. Each piece or
Game Board stack moves in a straight line and the two lines meet
on an opposing piece or stack.
Attangle is played on a six-sided
board. Pieces are placed on the • Pieces (or stacks) may move in any of the 6 direc-
intersections of lines. tions. Once decided, the direction of movement
for this stack may not be changed during the turn.
The coordinates printed on the
board permit each space to be • It is not allowed to jump over owned or opposing
named, making it easier to record a pieces (or stacks).
playing.

Playing Pieces
Players choose colors.
During the game these pieces are
stacked up in different ways. A
player owns a stack when the
topmost piece (or more precisely:
the majority of the pieces in the
stack) belongs to him.

Goal of the Game


The players try to create 3 of their Illustration: Two individual pieces capture an
own stacks of five. opposing piece and create a triple stack.

Playing the Game • Pieces (or stacks) may not move unless in
doing so, they capture. They are then placed on
In the beginning the board is empty. top of the opposing piece (or stack). They cannot
The player with the white pieces be moved to a vacant space or on top of one’s
begins by placing one of his pieces own piece (or stack).

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• No stack may exceed 5 pieces in
height.
• Once formed, stacks may never be
split.

End of the Game


The first player to create his third stack
of five wins the game.

Stacks may also capture. Together with an


individual stack it creates a stack of five.

Black wins with his 3 stacks of 5 at c4, e5


and f3.

Variant
Attangle can also be played on a
square grid board (as in Chess)..
Triple stacks can be captured by two individual
pieces.

It is not possible
to be captured
in this position.

• After the move the active player must have a


majority of 1 piece in the new stack, i.e either The pieces are placed on the 64 (8 × 8)
it is a triple stack (2:1 ratio) or a quintuple stack spaces in the middle of the board. Pieces
(3:2 ratio). move in all 8 possible directions (straight or
• The capturing pieces must be moved at the diagonal).
same time, that is, they must come from Five stacks of five are required to win
different directions since they cannot jump the game. All other rules are as in the
over other pieces. base game for a six-sided board.

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Q&A White Black
17. d6,b4-c5 c4,e4-d4
• What is the origin of the game’s name? 18. f5 c3
From the English words “attack” + “angle”: 19. c4 d3
in attacking the pieces describe an angle. 20. c2 d2
21. b3 a2
• The instructions state that in moving
22. c4,b3-c3 d2,d3-c2
exactly 2 pieces (or an individual piece
23. a3 b1
plus 1 stack of three must be moved?
24. c4 b3
Yes, that is correct. 25. c3,c4-b3
• So stacks can only be 3 or 5 in height? White wins.
Yes, this is also correct. Strategy Hints
• What about the stacks which are five
pieces high? • Triple stacks are simultaneously
dangerous and in danger; over
These stacks can never be captured or them lead all the paths to victory.
moved for the rest of the game. • Try to keep all of your pieces covered
• Are quintuple stacks removed from as much as possible.
the board when formed? • Wall off areas of the board and at
the same time try to create connected
No, they remain there.
groups of your pieces.
• The capturing pieces move at the same
time. In what order must I place them For More Information
on the stack?
Attangle game rules: Copyright © 1998
The order plays no role here.. One can
Dieter Stein
stack them in any order.
Attangle, together with the games
Notation Accasta and Attangle, comprise the
stacking game trilogy by Dieter Stein,
The coordinate system from Accasta (see invented between 1998 and 2006.
page 4) is used for notation.
More information is available on-line at
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1. e1 g3
2. d4 c5 The Designer
3. a4 c1
4. c4 f5 Born in 1965, Dieter Stein grew up in
5. e6 f3 Munich, Germany, and studied
6. a1 f5,c5-e6 phonetics, psychology and computer
7. c5 d6 science. Now he lives with his wife
8. d4,c5-d6 f1 and two children near Freising, Germany,
9. g1 e6,f1-e1 and is a self-employed software
10. d6,g1-g3 c2 developer and game designer.
11. c6 f5 Game invention has been his passion
12. d1 g2 since childhood. He does not see himself
13. d6 c5 so much as a storyteller, but as a “games
14. d4 b4 mechanic”, always endeavoring to bring
15. b5 f5,c2-c4 out the core of his game ideas.
16. a4,b5-b4 e4
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