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Designed By	Kris Burm
Art By	lu'cifer
Published By	Don & Co. Rio Grande Games Schmidt Spiele SMART
Year Published	2000
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (16 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	9 and up
User Suggested Ages	6 and up (6 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (12 voters) [poll]
Category	Abstract Strategy
Mechanic	Pattern Recognition Set Collection
Primary Name	ZÈRTZ
Alternate Names
Expanded By	GIPF Project Set 2
Families	Project GIPF

	Description Edit \| History

In this third addition to the GIPF Project players compete to acquire sets of multi-colored balls. This is mostly accomplished by jumping one ball over one or more others, Checkers-style, on a hex board. A player's turn consists of either jumping (which can be forced) or placing any color ball on the board and removing an empty space from the edge of the board. In this manner, the play space continually shrinks, giving the endgame an almost claustrophobic feel.

This game is part of project GIPF.

Home Page: http://www.gipf.com/zertz/index.html

	More Information Edit \| History

Awards

2000 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.
2000 Mensa Select Winner.

Online Play

Boardspace.net (real-time, AI option)
Gamerz (turn-based, play by email or play by web)

Local Computer Play

Holtz

Microbadges

Project GIPF Microbadges

Components:

6 white marbles
8 grey marbles
10 black marbles
37 round board pieces
1 rulebook

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7	Reviews Claim to Fame: Shrinking Board	2009-10-26	JYoder	13
0	General Additional components	2009-09-03	Thelonious77	4
2	Rules ZÈRTZ explained on Youtube	2009-08-29	Zickzack	10
5	Sessions Zertz - Adults have fun with Marbles	2009-06-12	maia_ann	3
0	General End Game Rules Unfair?	2009-06-01	Zaphod	4
8	Sessions Zounds! Zonked out on Zertz	2009-05-08	kataclysm	3
0	General Zertz - too good to be true?	2009-04-21	Saan	24
1	General What do you do when your only gaming partner for this game doesn't get the game?	2009-04-09	ralpher	14
16	Reviews Elegance meets depth of strategy!	2009-03-07	pacman88k	9
2	General Learning the game - impossible unless you're a friggin' genius???	2008-11-12	taragalinas	13

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A fancy board for zertz

Zertz doesn't need a board, but we like to use one anyway. Mount on foamcore to provide a hard surface as well.

caltino

2007-12-09

ZERTZ_player_aid.pdf

This is a player aid I made to help the kids keep track of score

LiMoN

2007-05-03

zertz.pdf

hungarian translation of rules

szoffi

2007-02-28

Zertz_Rules_pt.doc

Rules in portuguese

rmontemor

2006-12-12

Zertz Rules.doc

Zertz - English Ru;es

Patticus

2006-03-22

ZÈRTZ - Reglamento.pdf

Reglas en español (spanish game rules)

Adeptus

2006-01-05

ZertzPlayersAid.gif

Beginner's Guide

Marvinrah

2005-12-15

zertz_study-40b.pdf

Zertz planning and study sheet - 40bit for Acrobat 3.0,4.0!

2002-02-18

zertz_study.pdf

Two paper representations of the board for study and planning.

2002-02-08

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	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	107
Num Ratings:	1859
Average Rating:	7.44
Standard Deviation:	1.31
Num Views:	84884
GeekBuddy Analysis:	Analyze
Similarly Rated:	View
Avg. Game Weight:	2.8
Fans:	20

Personal Comments:	738
Users Owning:	2138
Users Wanting:	128
Users Trading:	49
Has Parts For Trade:	2
Want Parts In Trade:	4
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	5643
Plays This Month:	34

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GIPF Project Set 2

Rank	0
Num Ratings	72
Average Rating	7.45
Average Weight	3.20

Owned	401
Prev. Owned	5
For Trade	8
Wanted in Trade	27

Wishlist	47
Comments	62
Year Pub.	2001

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English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Fall2000GAR.htm	2009-10-02
How to play Zertz - YouTube Video	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2I32IURVSE	2009-08-05
How to Play Zertz with Mark Blanco - Video	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2I32IURVSE	2009-08-04
Holtz, an open source opponent for Zèrtz and Dvonn	http://holtz.sourceforge.net/	2008-04-04
Dutch Review on www.spellenclub13.be	http://www.spellenclub13.be/recensies/Zertz.htm	2007-06-17
Review by BrettSpillGuiden.no - Scandinavian independent boardgame site	http://www.brettspillguiden.no/kritikker/?gid=243	2006-05-12
Review on LudiGaume (French)	http://www.ludigaume.net/Jeux/Zertz/zertz_i.htm	2005-04-08
Review in Finnish at Lautapelaaja.net	http://www.lautapelaaja.net/arvostelut/zertz.html	2005-03-19
Jeux de NIM: rules, pictures & review [FRENCH]	http://www.jeuxdenim.be/fiche_Zertz.htm	2005-03-05
History and Rules in Italian	http://www.pergioco.net/Giochi/GiochiDiTavoliere/Z...	2004-11-18

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