User:Kevin Saff/Games
- For example, we could have:
| Chess | |
| Category | Board game |
| Genre | Strategy game |
| Origin | India; further evolved in Middle East and Europe |
| Players | 2 (number) |
| Object | Capture |
- This might make sense if we made a taxobox for all games. But now consider if someone is primarily interested in abstract strategy games. In this case, the category, genre, and players above will all be constant, so we could replace them with things perhaps more interesting for abstracts:
| Zèrtz | |
| Origin | Belgium, 2000 |
| Inventor | Kris Burm |
| Mechanics | Shrinking board, Capturing by jumping |
| Board | Hexagonal |
| Object | Capture a particular set. |
- Of course, what we really want is to look specifically at mancala games. We get something like:
| Oware | |
| Region | from Ghana to the Caribbean |
| Movement | Single laps, Counter-clockwise |
| Board | 2 × 6 |
| Seeds | 4 per hole |
| Capturing | Exact count (2, 3) |
- Putting this all together, maybe we get:
| Hex | |
| Origin | India; further evolved in Middle East and Europe |
| Inventor | John Nash/Piet Hein |
| Category | Board game |
| Genre | Strategy game |
| Players | 2 (number) |
| Board | Hexagonal |
| Pieces | Stones in two colors. |
| Mechanics | Placement |
| Capturing | N/A |
| Object | Connect |