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{{Short description|Abstract strategy board game}}

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Tumbleweed is an abstract strategy board game for two players, involving an hexagonal grid and pieces positioned according to line of sight.

Tumbleweed was created by Mike Zapawa during the COVID lockdowns

{{cite web | url=https://www.sasktoday.ca/central/opinion/the-meeple-guild-tumbleweed-is-new-but-interesting-4162200 | title=The Meeple Guild - Tumbleweed is new but interesting | date=31 January 2021 }}

{{cite web | url=https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/318702/tumbleweed | title= BoardGameGeek game page }}

and gained popularity in 2021 being discussed in the spring issue of "Abstract Games" magazine and in specialized blogs.{{cite web | url=https://www.abstractgames.org/tumbleweed.html | title=Tumbleweed }}

{{cite web | url=https://drericsilverman.com/2021/02/12/quick-picks-interesting-abstract-games-in-brief/ | title= Silverman blog| date= 12 February 2021}}

Tumbleweed was voted Best Combinatorial 2-Player Game of 2020 on the website BoardGameGeek and was featured as a discipline in the Mind Sports Olympiad. It has been proved PSPACE complete by a scientific article in 2022.

{{cite arXiv | title= The Game of Tumbleweed is PSPACE-complete| eprint= 2206.09476| last1= Bahack| first1= Lear| date= 2022| class= cs.CC}}

Rules

Tumbleweed is played on a hexhex board. The two players take turns placing pieces numbered from 1 to 6.

Each piece has a "line of sight" to a hex cell, when they are connected by a straight line of empty cells, with no pieces in between.

The new pieces can be placed on hexes that are seen by at least one friendly piece. The number of every newly-placed piece equals the number of friendly pieces that "see" the new piece.

It is possible to replace a piece with a new one having an higher number. This works both to capture opponent pieces or to reinforce your own.

A pie rule is used before the game.

One player sets up the board and the other decides which side he wants to play.

Setup consists of a neutral "2" piece in the central hex, and a single "1" piece of each player color in any two cells.

The game ends when no more moves can be made by either player, or after two successive passes. The player who occupies more cells wins.

Equipment

Tumbleweed is played mostly online, but physical boards are getting more common, usually using 6-sided dice as pieces.

Championship

The result of the world championship (held online every year) were

2021

1st place -- Anton Christenson

2nd place -- N/A (Hootie)

3rd place -- Alek Erickson

2022

1st place -- Alek Erickson

2nd place -- Bernd Radmacher

3rd place -- N/A (Hootie)

2023

1st place -- Ben (TestingQwerty)

2nd place -- Yuki Shibata (Komacchin)

3rd place -- Bernd Radmacher

2024

1st place -- Bernd Radmacher

2nd place -- Hadrien Espic (Tellorion)

External links

  • [https://en.boardgamearena.com/gamepanel?game=tumbleweed],
  • [https://play.abstractplay.com/games/tumbleweed]

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