Pente (1977)

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Designer	Tom Braunlich Gary Gabrel
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Publisher	Clipper Decipher Estrela Gabriel igGameCenter MB spellen Milton Bradley Miro Company Parker Brothers Pente Games Winning Moves Winning Moves France Show More »
Year Published	1977
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (17 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	8 and up
User Suggested Ages	8 and up (5 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (8 voters) [poll]
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Subdomain	Abstract Games (25 voters) [vote]
Category	Abstract Strategy
Mechanic	Pattern Building Pattern Recognition
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Family	n in a row Tube Games
Primary Name	Pente
Alternate Names	Pagoda Pente, 20th Anniversary Edition Quina
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Pente is an abstract strategy game. Players place glass markers on intersections of a 19-by-19 grid (the same as in Go). The object of the game is to get five of your own markers in a row (4 with more than 2 players) or capture five pairs of your opponent's pieces. The first to do either wins. Capturing takes place when exactly two pieces are sandwiched between pieces of the opposite color. There are multiple variations of the game for greater challenge and complexity. The 20th anniversary edition is a deluxe version of the game with a large color game instruction book, quality game board, and six sets of different colored glass markers that allows play with up to 6 players.

Other five-in-a-row games include Go-Moku and Renju (which do not feature capturing), and Ninuki-Renju (which does).

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German first edition

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Year: 2006

Size: Long Rectangle (e.g. Power Grid)

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Year: 2005

Size: 18.25 x 3.50 x 3.50 inches

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Year: 2004

Product Code: 1075

Size: 17.00 x 8.50 x 2.00 inches

2.25 pounds

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Pente, 20th Anniversary Edition

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Year: 1998

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Year: 1992

Size: 18.20 x 2.70 x 2.70 inches

1.04 pounds

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0	Variants A Better Way to Score the 3-Player Game	2012-03-06	Oecolampad	0
26	Reviews Been playing this for almost thirty years and still love it	2011-03-31	whac3	3
0	General Looking to contact the designers.	2011-02-14	Walsfeo	6
2	Sessions Playing with four players	2010-06-25	rukiosu	0
3	Variants 4-Player Pente	2010-06-25	rukiosu	5
5	Sessions Pente? Two games are plenty.	2010-05-23	pete belli	2
29	Strategy What is the transit time of a Pente piece through the gastrointestinal tract of a toddler?	2010-05-01	JoshBot	7
1	General Cross-post for review: Renju vs. Pente	2009-12-03	whac3	0
8	Reviews Go Pente, Go! : A Pente Review	2009-11-22	Focuscoene	10
24	Reviews A classic game with wonderful simplicity	2009-04-17	Talisinbear	1

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A homemade Pente board with notational aids.

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Dutch review on speldatabase.be - Pente	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=53&zoekcrit...	2012-01-14
Dutch rules	http://spelarch.khbo.be/PDFspelregels/53.pdf	2012-01-14
Dutch review on speldatabase.be - Pagoda	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=249&zoekcri...	2012-01-09
German review - Reich der Spiele	http://www.reich-der-spiele.de/kritiken/Pente	2011-10-16
Pente and Keryo-Pente with AI opponent	http://sites.google.com/site/erfarmer/downloads	2010-09-29
Rules from Hasbro PDF (1982 Edition)	http://www.hasbro.com/common/instruct/Pente.PDF	2010-08-06
A Pente Resource page	http://sites.google.com/a/jenandbrien.com/home/bri...	2009-09-13
Wikipedia entry for Pente, discusses several variants	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pente	2008-12-23
PDF of Rules Sheet (2004)	http://www.winning-moves.com/images/PenteRules.pdf	2008-03-23
Mark's five-in-a-row games, Pente and Go-Moku.	http://mysite.verizon.net/msmammek/marksfiv.html	2005-08-15