Java board game is a German-style board game which provides the atmosphere of the island of Java on a hexagonal board. Players build the island and score by setting up palacefestivals at opportune moments. When players run out of hexagons to build the island, the game is over. A final scoring phase now takes place and a winner is declared.
Java is a German-style boardgame designed by Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling and published in 2000 by Ravensburger in German and by Rio Grande Games in English.
Java won the Deutscher Spiele Preis 9th place in 2001 and the Games Magazine Best Advanced Strategy Game in 2002.
The game provides the atmosphere of the island of Java on a hexagonalboard.
Decisions in one part of the board may be influenced by an apparently unrelated situation, in a distant part of the board.
Abalone is a boardgame with fl and white marbles.
Traditionally, the board's grid is 1.5 shaku 尺 long by 1.4 shaku wide (455 mm by 424 mm) with space beyond to allow stones to be played on the edges and corners of the grid.