Z-Man

Designed by Omar and Aamir Syed

Intuitively simple...Intellectually challenging

Arimaa® is a game where stronger animals like elephants and camels try to push and pull the weaker ones from the opposing team into traps while one of the rabbits tries to sneak across the board and harmlessly reach the other side. The first player to get a rabbit to the other side wins.

This may sound like a simple kids game; and while it is easy enough for your kids to learn and enjoy, you will find that it is also a very deep game that can take a lifetime to master. Arimaa® is one of
the deepest strategy games ever invented in the history of mankind, but designed to look intuitively simple. In just the first ten moves of Arimaa® there are more possible games than there are atoms in our universe. No two games of Arimaa are ever the same. There is much to learn and discover about
this intuitively simple, yet intellectually challenging game.

This game also doubles as an animal-themed chess set!

SPECIAL US$10K PRIZE AWAITS to the first programmer or programming team to create a computer program that can consistently beat a human player. Download the challenge info to the right.

PRONOUNCED: a-REE-muh

LARGE BOX SHOT

Contents: 1 Game board (doubles as a chessboard), 32 figures - 16 gold-colored weighted plastic pieces with felt bottom and 16 silver-colored weighted plastic pieces with felt bottom, and rules
No. of players: 2
Ages: 10+
Playing time: 60 minutes
Price: $39.99
Stock code: ZMG 7037

 

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