2nd January 2026, 9:07 PM
(This post was last modified: 2nd January 2026, 9:33 PM by Sunlight123. Edited 3 times in total.)
I don't know if this will reach anyone that will be interested, but I might as well try.
There's a new abstract board game that's simple but deep. If you like Chess or Go or anything similar to that, or just interested in math and patterns, you might be into it.
It's called MigoYugo:
https://www.migoyugo.com/
The entire game is digitized. You can play against an AI and the level 3 and level 4 AI are decently strong. Will probably defeat you a lot if you are new.
The Rules of the Game are:
- You play on an 8x8 board (A chessboard will do)
- Each player takes turns placing 1 stone somewhere on the board (These stones are called 'Migos')
- Once a player gets 4 allied stones in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally left, or diagonally right then all the allied Migos in that row disappear and the final stone placed is a Level-2 Stone. (These are called 'Yugos')
- The first person to get 4 Yugos in a row wins... If neither wins this way then, when the board is full, we go to a tiebreaker where whoever has more Yugos win.
- There is one extra rule: You can never make a line of more than 4 pieces in a row. So no 5, 6, 7, rows etc.
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The community is too small right now. Probably only a dozen players and a few active players. I want to see it get bigger, maybe have a tournament or something one day.
It's surprisingly deep. There's probably a lot of fundamental Tactics in it. Some Chess Tactics that carry over to it are Forced Moves, Tempos, Overloading, Chains, Simplifying the Board, Zugzwang, etc. Strategy is probably about controlling the center and making your pieces aligned, but since it's a new unstudied game who knows.
If you're not the competitive type, which I'm not completely, it's just cool how patterns emerge from it. A lot like Go or Conway's Game of Life, although this is definitely a lot more convoluted and less predictable. If you're into math you might find things to study or interest you in it. I might write about it later if anybody is interested/show some of my diagrams.
There's a new abstract board game that's simple but deep. If you like Chess or Go or anything similar to that, or just interested in math and patterns, you might be into it.
It's called MigoYugo:
https://www.migoyugo.com/
The entire game is digitized. You can play against an AI and the level 3 and level 4 AI are decently strong. Will probably defeat you a lot if you are new.
The Rules of the Game are:
- You play on an 8x8 board (A chessboard will do)
- Each player takes turns placing 1 stone somewhere on the board (These stones are called 'Migos')
- Once a player gets 4 allied stones in a row, either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally left, or diagonally right then all the allied Migos in that row disappear and the final stone placed is a Level-2 Stone. (These are called 'Yugos')
- The first person to get 4 Yugos in a row wins... If neither wins this way then, when the board is full, we go to a tiebreaker where whoever has more Yugos win.
- There is one extra rule: You can never make a line of more than 4 pieces in a row. So no 5, 6, 7, rows etc.
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The community is too small right now. Probably only a dozen players and a few active players. I want to see it get bigger, maybe have a tournament or something one day.
It's surprisingly deep. There's probably a lot of fundamental Tactics in it. Some Chess Tactics that carry over to it are Forced Moves, Tempos, Overloading, Chains, Simplifying the Board, Zugzwang, etc. Strategy is probably about controlling the center and making your pieces aligned, but since it's a new unstudied game who knows.
If you're not the competitive type, which I'm not completely, it's just cool how patterns emerge from it. A lot like Go or Conway's Game of Life, although this is definitely a lot more convoluted and less predictable. If you're into math you might find things to study or interest you in it. I might write about it later if anybody is interested/show some of my diagrams.
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Here is my game against AI - Level 4, playing as White![[Image: q2GRKUL.png]](https://i.imgur.com/q2GRKUL.png)
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