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The general public will be given the possibility to learn and try new games and to take part in beginners' tournaments, which there will be a broad scale of. The events for the broad public will be held in Tyršův dům on July 21 - 23, from 9:00 till 23:00. All the time the visitors will be able to learn and immediately play any game FOR FREE in our Ludiatheque (we have about 100 games).
Board games laymen and experts will certainly be satisfied as we have prepared plenty of beginners' and master tournaments with international participation. The last year players came from nineteen countries of the world.
Tournaments in the following games are planned:
A game using an interesting hexagonal board and colored balls of each player's color. The players try to push opponents' balls out of the board. The first player to succeed in pushing six opponent's balls out is the winner. Abalone is a very intuitive game. You can learn the rules in 70 seconds and in two years you can become world's champion, as is the story of Vojtěch Hrabal, the champion of 1998. There are variants for two, three, four and six players, forming teams.
A centuries-old game using an unusual board with 24 wedges. Although a playing cube is used, the luck is not the deciding factor: good reasoning and strong nerves are necessary. One match is usually formed by several games.
The players form a landscape by gradually adding tiles with castles, monasteries, meadows and roads. By their figures they try to occupy largest possible part of the countryside and thus to get the most possible points.
The playing board is the map of Europe. Each player commands army of one country. Between every two moves the players make treaties and coalitions.
Perhaps everyone knows this game but each one with slightly different rules. Now you've got a unique opportunity to orientate yourself in the rules. You'll learn how to play the Czech Draughts (Dáma; 8×8), the International Draughts (10×10), the Checkers.
The opponents represent the Order and the Chaos. One of them attempts to order the pieces on the board while the other tries to avoid that. Which one wins?
A part of a three-game project (Zertz, Gipf, Tamsk) where the position on the board is only modified by inserting pieces from the margin. A high quality combinatoric game.
Two players put tiles on the board and try to capture the largest possible area. Many players view this ancient Japanese game rather as a philosophy.
A modern tactic game. You can move along as many fields as many tiles there are in the given direction on the board. Thanks to this unusual concept the situation on the board changes very quickly so surprising reversals are possible until the very end.
A tournament for fun.
Two players put tiles on the board and "recolor" the captured tiles to their color. He who has more tiles of his color at the end is the winner. You can learn the rules in a minute but spend a lifetime to become a master.
Most frequently played variant of the broad scale of mankala games. These games are popular in all parts of Africa. All variants have the same base: you move beans (or stones) among holes in the board and try to achieve a specific number of beans in target hole. If you succeed you are allowed to put them into your treasu-ry. The player who has more beans in his treasury at the end wins.
World's most popular game with words. Due to absence of tiles and arbiters for other languages, only Czech scrabble mutations will be accommodated at Prague MSO.
You settle a landscape on an interesting board: you build villages, towns and roads of profit from your properties. A thief can steal everything from you! You can exchange your yields with your opponents. It is up to your business talent how profiting this trade will be.
Japanese sister of chess. The tiles are distinguished by the Japanese kanji characters. Some tiles can raise their strength, captured tiles can return to the game.
In this game you put numbers on the board in a crossword-style trying to build rows summing 10, 11 or 12. Lower sums can be formed but do not score; higher sums must not be formed.