5x5 GAMES
Dec 09, 2021
4 minutes
BY JOE CELKO
Experienced gamers are undoubtedly aware of games that are played on an 8×8 grid of squares. They include chess and its variations; checkers (or draughts, if you are British) and its variations; and other games.
Several years ago, however, the website Board-GameGeek.com had a thread devoted to games played on 5×5 grids. The number five was determined to be small enough to lead to fast games and yet large enough for the games to still be interesting.
Here’s a sample of some 5×5 games you might like to try. If you want to make yourself a board, you can obviously draw one on paper, but you could also run down to your local hardware store and buy
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