Party games
penultima
penultima is a party game released in 1994. It is played with 3 to 8 players.
- players
- 3–8
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The box
- Designers
- Adam Chalcraft, Michael Greene
- Year of release
- 1994
About the game
Penultima is a game of inductive logic, played on a chess board. It was invented by Michael Greene and Adam Chalcraft in Cambridge in 1994. The game is derived from the chess variant Ultima (otherwise known as Baroque chess), a different chess variant with all pieces replaced by fairy pieces with their own mechanics. Penultima is played with a standard chess board and pieces, each piece having different movement and capture rules from standard chess. In a manner similar to the game Mao, which was a popular game in Cambridge at that time, the rules for each piece vary from game to game, and are initially kept secret from the players. Penultima is similar in style to Eleusis, Zendo and Mao. The name of the game is a pun on "penultimate" and "Ultima".Information from Marquoir’s game database, which cross-checks several open sources. Spotted a mistake? Write to us from the Contact page.