Board games
Agon
ABRA, 1842
Agon is a board game published by ABRA in 1842. It is played with 2 players, from age 9 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 9+
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The box
- Publishers
- ABRA, Ceméa, Creative Crafthouse, Fratelli Fabbri Editori (Fabbri Editore), The Game Crafter, LLC, GAMES Magazine
- Artwork
- David McCord
- Year of release
- 1842
- Also known as
- Queen's Guard · Advance and Retreat: A Game of Skill · Agon, or the Queen's Guards · Drottningens livdrabanter
About the game
Agon (or queen's guards or royal guards) is a strategy game invented by Anthony Peacock
of London, and first published in 1842.
It is a two-player game played on a 6×6×6 hexagonal gameboard, and is notable for being the oldest known board game played on a board of hexagonal cells.More from ABRA
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