The Game That Takes a Lot of Balls
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Akron is a new connection game played with marbles on a square grid. Most games in this family, such as the classics Hex and Y, tend to be hexagonal in nature to avoid problems with deadlocks in the plane. Gonnect (AG 6) is a rare exception on the square grid that uses Go-like captures to elegantly get around this problem. Akron takes a different route; upwards. Players resolve deadlocks by stacking pieces to step over enemy blocks.
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