Board games
Banqi
Banqi is a board game released in 1970. It is played with 2 players, from age 10 and in about 15 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 15
- years
- 10+
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The box
- Year of release
- 1970
- Also known as
- Dark Chess · Blind Chess · Half Chess · Anqi
About the game
Banqi (Chinese: 半棋; pinyin: bànqí) or Half Chess, also known as Dark Chess (暗棋) or Blind Chess (盲棋), is a two-player Chinese board game played on a 4×8 grid, or half of the xiangqi (Chinese chess) board. Most games last between ten and twenty minutes, but advanced games can last for an hour or more.
Banqi is a social game, usually played for fun rather than serious competition. A more formal version of Banqi may have evolved into the games Jungle and modern Luzhanqi.Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.