Connection Games: Variations on a Theme

by Cameron Browne

A comprehensive study of the connection game genre, Connection Games provides a survey of known connection games while exploring common themes and strategies. This book aims to impose some structure on this increasingly large family of games, and to define exactly what constitutes a connection game. Key games are examined in detail and complete rules for over 200 connection games and variants are provided. A connection game is a board game in which players vie to develop or complete a specific type of connection with their pieces. This might involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or gathering all pieces together into a single connected group.

Genres: Games

414 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[David · Rating 3 out of 5]

A concise but thorough overview of the connection game genre, including many recent and relatively untested games. Not all of the information here is equally useful. Anyone with a desire to learn the elements of graph theory, for example, will want an account focused less on terminology and more on its uses than the brief introduction provided in an appendix. Still, I am inspired to delve deeper into the most promising connection games, such as Hex, Y, and Gonnect.

[Tom M. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Comprehensive overview of Connection-type games written from somewhat of a scholarly view. The game descriptions are enough to be intriguing though far from detailed enough to allow for play.