YAVALATH
Four wins · Three loses
A hex board game for two or three players. Make a line of four and you win. Make a line of exactly three and you are out.
A game no person designed
Yavalath was generated in 2007 by Ludi, a program the game designer Cameron Browne built to invent board games and judge them by how good they were to play. It is the first computer-designed game to be published commercially, and Ludi's work won a Gold Humies award in 2012 for machine results that stand up against human ones.
This app is an independent implementation. The board, artwork, sounds and code are original; the game is Cameron Browne's, and the name is used with his permission. The physical edition is published by nestorgames and is worth owning.
How it plays
- Two or three players, online or passing one phone back and forth
- Three-player games use the mandatory blocking rule, properly
- A short guide that teaches the rules on a real board
- Free, with no ads and nothing to buy