GIPF (1997)

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Designer	Kris Burm
Artist	lu'cifer
Publisher	Don & Co. Ísöld ehf. Rio Grande Games Schmidt Spiele SMART Show More »
Year Published	1997
# of Players	2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (23 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	9 and up
User Suggested Ages	8 and up (4 voters) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (11 voters) [poll]
Honors	1998 Spiel des Jahres Recommended 2006 Årets Spill Best Family Game Nominee
Subdomain	Abstract Games (24 voters) [vote]
Category	Abstract Strategy
Mechanic	Pattern Building Pattern Recognition
Expansion	GIPF Project Set 1 GIPF Project Set 2 GIPF Project Set 3
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Family	Project GIPF
Primary Name	GIPF
Alternate Names	GIPF mini
Website	http://www.gipf.com

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GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: in turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in a-row. Players then remove their row and capture any of their opponent's pieces which extend that row. This principle of capturing pieces creates each time again completely changed situations on the board. The purpose is to form successive rows of at least 4 pieces, until the opponent has no piece left to bring into play.

GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well. This project concerns a group of games and extra pieces that will follow step by step. Each game of the project will be playable either separately, or, by means of extra pieces, in combination with GIPF. It concerns a system that makes winning or losing GIPF-related games a strategic factor of the game GIPF itself.

This game is part of project GIPF.

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Awards

2006 Nominee Årets Familiespill (Family Game of the Year, Norway)
1998 Spiel des Jahres Recommendation.

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Boardspace.net real-time, against human or AI opponents
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Components:

1 gameboard
18 white basic pieces
18 black basic pieces
1 rulebook

Some versions of GIPF also came with 6 GIPF "potential" pieces in both colours.

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GIPF

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SMART edition

Publisher: SMART

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Year: 2008

Product Code: PG 100

Size: 12.48 x 9.37 x 1.57 inches

1.87 pounds

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Rio Grande edition

Publisher: Rio Grande Games

Artist: lu'cifer

Year: 2004

Product Code: 11121

Size: 9.33 x 12.58 x 1.57 inches

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Nordic edition

Publisher: Don & Co., Ísöld ehf.

Artist: lu'cifer

Year: 2004

Product Code: 11121

Size: 9.45 x 12.60 x 1.57 inches

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Don & Co edition

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Don&Co - Black box Edition

Publisher: Don & Co.

Artist: lu'cifer

Year: 1996

Size: 15.94 x 9.06 x 1.57 inches

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1	General lucifer?	2012-02-23	CaptainPB	20
3	General Length of Gipf sessions	2011-11-22	stratomaster	18
0	Rules Problem understanding, or misprint in the rule book?	2011-04-15	JrStrange	13
0	General Is GIPF an acronym?	2011-04-04	arcnarenth	12
1	General Gipf mini	2010-11-15	Mr Thijs	7
5	Variants GIPF on a checkerboard?	2010-07-21	Paolo Robino	0
12	Reviews Kevin's Fun-FIlled, FIve-Point Reviews	2010-04-16	pacman88k	1
1	Rules End Game Questions	2009-11-29	Sanders	2
0	General 2nd Editions of Yinsh and Dvonn also bakelite pieces?	2009-11-02	jkandell	7

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1	GIPF Project Set 3 General U.S. Availability	2007-05-08	dbuel	2
0	GIPF Project Set 3 General Where to buy from in Europe?	2006-12-25	GeoMan	1
2	GIPF Project Set 3 General The Lowdown...	2006-10-26	bwridge	6
0	GIPF Project Set 2 General zertz potential question	2004-02-03	llamawobble	2
1	GIPF Project Set 2 General Potentials	2003-06-15	Gola	1
0	GIPF Project Set 2 General euhm.. the other way around	2003-01-06	minordemon	1

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3	DocReason's Designer HQ (rest TBD)... Project GIPF vs The Games on Half a Checkerboard Series (and a request) by Richard Hutnik	0
77	ekted's brain dump What's Impressed Me the Most by Jim Cote	2
18	Mikko's photoblog Game session photos: Gipf by Mikko Saari	6

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Guia Rápido GIPF

Quick guide for the game for players that already know the game. In Portuguese only.

pringi

2011-12-11

4 page Gipf board for 4cm tokens

This is a gipf board which can be printed out on 4 pieces of A4 and put together; it is designed for 4cm tokens (like poker chips).

bithalver

2009-06-16

GIPF potentials v1.pdf

Graphical guide depicting how the various potentials work.

zefquaavius

2007-08-27

GIPF - Reglamento.pdf

Reglas en español (spanish game rules)

Adeptus

2006-01-05

gipf set2.PDF

Project GIPF set 2 rules translation.

benedictus

2003-12-18

gipf__rg.pdf

Traduction française par François Haffner

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2001-05-28

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	Statistics

Board Game Rank:	337
Abstract Games Rank:	14
Num Ratings:	1590
Average Rating:	7.17
Standard Deviation:	1.30
Num Views:	99009
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Avg. Game Weight:	2.8
Fans:	36

Personal Comments:	579
Users Owning:	2225
Users Wanting:	128
Users Trading:	57 [find trade matches]
Has Parts For Trade:	1
Want Parts In Trade:	1
Price History:	View
Total Plays:	3847
Plays This Month:	42

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GIPF Project Set 1

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	79
Average Rating	7.08
Average Weight	3.23

Num Owned	503
Prev. Owned	23
For Trade	6
Want in Trade	34

Wishlist	60
Comments	55
Year Published	2001

GIPF Project Set 2

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	87
Average Rating	7.44
Average Weight	3.42

Num Owned	543
Prev. Owned	23
For Trade	10
Want in Trade	28

Wishlist	57
Comments	71
Year Published	2001

GIPF Project Set 3

Rank	N/A
Num Ratings	40
Average Rating	7.29
Average Weight	3.11

Num Owned	342
Prev. Owned	14
For Trade	5
Want in Trade	32

Wishlist	70
Comments	36
Year Published	2006

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English rules	http://www.riograndegames.com/uploads/Game/Game_93...	2012-05-10
Dutch review on speldatabase.be	http://speldatabase.be/spelinfo.php?id=4673&zoekcr...	2011-12-09
German review - games we play	http://gamesweplay.de/gipf.html	2011-07-23
A Review on The Spiel #78 - Driven to Abstraction	http://thespiel.net/?q=node/419	2011-05-23
Video-reseña en castellano de GIPF - Video review in Spanish (New Address)	http://juegosmontt.blogspot.com/2006/12/video-rese...	2011-05-09
English Session Report on Gameblog	http://www.mikkosgameblog.com/2011/04/triumvirate-...	2011-05-05
Russian rules	http://www.igroved.ru/games/gipf/gipf/rules_gipf.z...	2010-11-09
Dutch user reviews on Bordspelmania.eu	http://www.bordspelmania.eu/spellen/detail/gipf_42...	2010-09-06
German review at Michas Spielmitmir	http://www.michas-spielmitmir.de/spieletests.php?i...	2010-05-06
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/SP98.htm	2009-10-02