Shogi
Play Japanese chess, where the pieces you capture switch sides and fight for you.
~$25Cost to start
ModerateDifficulty
30–60 minTime / session
2 setup steps, ~$25 all in. Nothing to buy until you say so.
Is it you?
Nobody has scored this against your answers yet. 30–60 min at a time, $25 to find out whether it sticks.
SpaceTiny
The path12 quests
ASetting up2 things to sort, in any order$25
- Play free online against beginners
- Get a set with western-style pieces if you cannot read kanji
Then the quests
- Play a full game without illegal moves
- Win material and drop the captured piece back
- Promote three different pieces in one game
Same shape of evening, different thing to hold at the end. Or follow a tag sideways.
Go (Game)$59
Surround territory on a simple grid that hides bottomless depth.
Chess$51
Outthink one opponent across sixty-four squares with no luck involved.
Compose elegant chess problems, not to win a game, but to craft a puzzle with a single beautiful solution.
Deckbuilding$60
The brewer's craft behind trading card games: engineering a deck or cube that wins on purpose.