Emergo (board game)
Encyclopedia
Emergo is a board game
created by Christian Freeling
and Ed van Zon in 1986. Its name is derived from the motto of the Dutch
province of Zeeland
: Luctor et emergo, meaning "I wrestle and emerge".
Emergo belongs to the family of abstract strategy games in general. In particular, it belongs to the so called stacking games and it is related to the games of Bashni and Lasca
. Emergo has won critical acclaim.
Board game
A board game is a game which involves counters or pieces being moved on a pre-marked surface or "board", according to a set of rules. Games may be based on pure strategy, chance or a mixture of the two, and usually have a goal which a player aims to achieve...
created by Christian Freeling
Christian Freeling
Christian Freeling is a Dutch game designer and inventor of various chess variants, notably Grand chess, invented in 1984.Other game inventions by Freeling include:...
and Ed van Zon in 1986. Its name is derived from the motto of the Dutch
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
province of Zeeland
Zeeland
Zeeland , also called Zealand in English, is the westernmost province of the Netherlands. The province, located in the south-west of the country, consists of a number of islands and a strip bordering Belgium. Its capital is Middelburg. With a population of about 380,000, its area is about...
: Luctor et emergo, meaning "I wrestle and emerge".
Emergo belongs to the family of abstract strategy games in general. In particular, it belongs to the so called stacking games and it is related to the games of Bashni and Lasca
Lasca
Lasca is a draughts variant, invented by the second World Chess Champion Emanuel Lasker...
. Emergo has won critical acclaim.
Rules
Emergo comes in two versions, one being played on the black fields of a 9x9 square board and one on a hexagonal board consisting of 37 hexagons itself. The latter version, also called Hexemergo, is now abandoned by its creator because a winning strategy has been found in correspondence play. The square version does not suffer from a similar problem, however.External links
- Emergo on BoardgamegeekBoardGameGeekBoardGameGeek is a website that was founded in January 2000 by Scott Alden and Derk Solko as a resource for the board gaming hobby. The database holds reviews, articles, and session reports for over 45,000 different games, expansions, and designers. BoardGameGeek includes German-style board games,...
- Emergo on Mindsports - containing links to rules, history, and strategy as well as the possibility of turn based play