Hi everyone. I know that normally this site is just about books, but I thought that some of you might be interested in reading about a cool strategy board game called Pentago.

I was just introduced to Pentago by a couple friends of mine. The board is set up as shown on the left.

As you can see, you rotate the board after every move. The object of the game is to get five of those little ball things in a row. The motto is, “seconds to learn, years to master,” and that’s definitely true.

It’s a really fun game. Even though I’m pretty good at strategy (being a competitive chess player), I had a little difficulty at first with the game just because I’m bad at geometry.

I’ve already spent a bunch of time playing the game. Most of the time was against a friend who was also playing Pentago for the first time, but is also very smart and spends a lot of time doing logic puzzles and that kind of stuff. Over time the opening moves started to evolve and we traded victories with each other.

For people my age, I wouldn’t really recommend Pentago just because it is quite difficult to win if you’re going second and the other person knows what they’re doing. Before too long, in fact, it became almost impossible for either side to defend.

For younger kids, though, this game is great and I think they’ll have a lot of fun with it. This game has won several awards, including one from Mensa! It’s a good mind training game, and younger kids will have a lot of fun figuring it out.

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