Games played on a 4x4 grid

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This list is for games played in the cells of a board with a 4x4 grid (16 playing positions). The quintessential game to me would be an abstract strategy game played on the 4x4 grid with just plain black and white men.

Some games are included that somehow extend the 4x4 footprint are included.

* Pylos stacks spheres as a mechanic to increase the complexity of the basic 4x4 grid.
* Score Four is included since the balls are stacked in the 4x4 grid and there are never more than 16 playing positions at once. (There are a number of versions in database under different names.)
* Some of the children's 4x4 bingo games are added but not all.

So this list is necessarily somewhat arbitrary.

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76. Board Game: Fast4Words [Average Rating:6.40 Unranked]

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Make words in 4x4 grid for points.

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77. Board Game: Felsberger Nuggets [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

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4 circles in 2x2 grid, with 4 positions in each circle...scant information in BGG on how to play.

If I understand this right, it's a puzzle not a game. the disks move via a slot from cirle to circle. You're trying to get each disc in the same color as the section of the wheel.

It also seems since there are four dimples for marbles on each "wheel" that the four sections could be 2x2 squares, assuming that you must rotate 90 degrees. If you could rotate 45 degrees then you could use four octagons instead of "wheels."

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78. Board Game: Final Fantasy IX Tetra Master Card Game [Average Rating:5.68 Overall Rank:17107]

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card card played on 4x4 grid.

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79. Board Game: Fits [Average Rating:5.39 Overall Rank:17698]

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I think these grids are sort of 4x4?

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80. Board Game: Flip 'Em [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

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Seems to be same game as Flip-Tac-Toe

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81. Board Game: Flip to Win Travel Bingo [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]

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Kid's Bingo game

As when I played this as a kid, only the person spotting the desired thing could use it. So if my brother saw a cow, and cow was on both cards, only he could use it.

I don't remember size of board I played. It was two pieces of pasteboard riveted together. Over each object to be spotted was a red plastic window that you could slide. Mom and Dad must have been happy for a little peace and quiet on some of those long road trip in the 1960s.

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82. Board Game: Flip-Tac-Toe [Average Rating:5.60 Unranked]

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Seems to be same game as Flip 'em

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Fair Play Games
http://www.fairplaygames.com/gamedisplay.asp?gameid=4297

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83. Board Game: Foggle [Average Rating:5.22 Unranked]

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84. Board Game: Foragers [Average Rating:6.42 Overall Rank:8945]

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For four players 16 board tiles are played into a 4x4 grid.

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85. Board Game: Forma o Colore [Average Rating:6.17 Unranked]

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The designer created two versions of this game. Not sure exactly how the versions played out. The first version was named Forma o Colore and I think it was included in German magazine Focus after its initial release. It was subsequently redesigned to use a rubber pad with markers that stick into cavities in the pad. This version is now marketed by name OXXO.

Play a piece of flip a piece to get 4 in a row. the twist is that one player is playing to get colors, either red or blue, in a line and the other is playing to get either letter, X or O, in a line.

See Rubik's Magic for a list of similar games.

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86. Board Game: Fortac [Average Rating:6.14 Unranked]

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Not clear if a boxed game was ever sold, but there is a computer game.

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87. Board Game: Four Field Kono [Average Rating:4.51 Unranked]

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Quintessential strategy game between two players with each side having eight identical men.

I've found this mostly refered to as Four Field Kono. Usually played on the points of a 3x3 grid.

Added at suggestion of Clark D. Rodeffer (CDRodeffer)

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88. Board Game: Four Senses [Average Rating:6.37 Unranked]

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89. Board Game: Four Sight [Average Rating:5.54 Unranked]

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90. Board Game: Four Square [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

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It seems that a simple game can be played on one board which has a 4x4 grid of playing spaces.

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91. Board Game: Foursight [Average Rating:6.10 Unranked]

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92. Board Game: Gamba [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

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Terse description says played on 4x4 and mentions checkers. Assume that there is jumping with capture.

Game described in book:
http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/25214/10-brettspiele

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93. Board Game: Garden-party [Average Rating:3.00 Unranked]

Herb

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Game for 2-4 players. Each player gets a 4x4 plot in the garden in which to place the plant cards that are collected.

Doesn't seem to be any significant to 4x4 grid. It seems winner just needs to collect 4 different plant cards.

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94. Board Game: Gembel [Average Rating:5.00 Unranked]

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Anyone know rules?

Here is a link to image at website Abstarct Strategy Games with a bit better photo...
http://www.abstractstrategy.com/gembel.html

A review was published in 1998 in Games mag according to:
http://histmyst.org/game/list/98.html

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95. Board Game: Giant Wheel Picture Bingo [Average Rating:0.00 Unranked]

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The 6 bingo boards, printed on the large roll up mat, are each 4x4.

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96. Board Game: Gleebs and Grues [Average Rating:6.71 Unranked]

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A good short 2-player abstract strategy game using Components: Looney Pyramid Games.

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97. Board Game: Gobblet [Average Rating:6.60 Overall Rank:2248]

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Gobblet has been issued in multiple versions. There is also a similar but simplier game on a 3x3 grid named Gobblet Junior.

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98. Board Game: Gone Fishing! [Average Rating:5.35 Overall Rank:18865]

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Sort of a stretch, but one player does control a 4x4 grid which is the lake. The other player moves around the lake in an outer concentric square. So the game is perhaps more properly on a 6x6 grid?

Having two seperate playing areas is an interesting twist on a 4x4 game.

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99. Board Game: Googolplex Junior [Average Rating:6.00 Unranked]

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100. Board Game: The Green Pipe [Average Rating:7.25 Unranked]

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This is a rather convoluted strategy game where the players are trying to guess hidden information supplied by the other player. It is played on a board with a 4x4 grid. Two coins placed on random squares mark the head and tail of the pipe. Each player then draws a secret pipe between the two ends and puts three holes in the pipe.

Sort of a battleship type guessing game.

For a graphic for the game see:
http://boardgames.about.com/library/graphics/greenpipe.jpg

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