Abatis
game belongs to a kind of logic board puzzle games for
a single player with elements of randomness and no time
limits.
To
play successfully one should combine logic, strategy,
and ability to foresee the situation, patience ... and
a little bit of luck. Moving steadily to the set aim,
you have to build up artful combinations of chips, thinking
over several moves ahead and using your intuition sometimes.
Quick mastering, obviousness of combinations and easiness
of the game are combined with a big variety of possible
moves, complexity of the situations of the game and
the necessity to devise nonstandard approaches to the
ways of solving possible problems.
Now
ABATIS supports three types of the game: Classic, Knockout
and Mixed that in their turn have 70 different parameters'
settings. The game types have slight differences in
their rules but a player should use completely different
tactics and strategic methods.
The
game favorably differs from others so that the player
operates not with moves but with two-five-moves' combinations,
out of which tactical sketch of the game is formed and
it's created under the influence of some definite playing
strategy. The need to think for several moves ahead
and the element of randomness that brings a shade of
uncertainty into a playing process, demand a combination
of mathematical logic and life intuition. And the presence
of two possible goals in the game (complete clearing-out
of the abatis and building-up some definite number of
blocks) enable the player to use mixed strategies of
his conduct in the game according to the hardness of
the definite situation.
Though
the game may seem a bit static, Abatis is very dynamic.
Primary simple layout of the game can gradually change
for a complex one, and a complicated situation may in
no time become as easy as a pie. Out of one chip on
the board in some ten or more moves there may appear
a real puzzle. And vice versa, when you handily build
up a combination out of tens of the chips at the last
move, they scatter aside clearing the board fully, though
the position seems to be hopeless at the first sight.
Well,
what for do we tell you all this?! You try yourself
and see that we've been right. |
