JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post Part of the History of Dots series
There are many board games in the history of boards games that utilize dots similar to this game, but this one seems mightily different given the dots’ odd arrangement, and seeming disambiguation, and the means to the ends of the “race”. It is an unusual arrangement, or so it seems to me, given the amount of blank space and the connected dis-connectedness of the routes. The game looks to me more of a capturing of empty space than a competition of getting from Paris to Bruges in the shortest amount of time…though not in a space-capturing sense of Go–just in defining the empty space.