Overall Rating: 5 out of 10
Type: Board Game? Strategy Game?
Suggest Ages: 6+ (That seems young though??)
# of Players: 2 players
Playing Time: 3-30 minutes
Replay-ability: 5 out of 10
Expansions available: No (Different Versions available: Multiple Player Game)
Cost: Approximately $38
In Pentago, players attempt to get five of their marbles in a row. The version I played had only two players, one with white marbles and one with black marbles. The concept of the game is very simple; however, the game strategy is quite complex. Most of the complexity lies in turning one of the small squares. On their turn a player will place a marble into one of the four square quadrants and then rotate one of the quadrants 90 degrees. This turn changes the alignment of the marbles and can cause players to win or lose the game.
This game is very compact and could travel well because the container holds all the marbles and only takes up a small, flat square of space. The replayability would probably drop dramatically after players learn the different strategies (kinda like Tic Tac Toe). My girlfriend disagrees with me, she believe the game play would progress like Connect Four and no one would get tired of it. (But it's all speculation because we haven't played it enough times.)
I am not very good at this game because it's a bit too much visualization for me to manage, but I think once I become more familiar with it, I could become a lot better at it. I think it could be a good game for children to learn strategy. Overall I think this game is really interesting. It's definitely not in my top five, but it's an interesting alternative to longer games and could have a much calmer game play than other competitive games.
[I will post photos later.]
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