We are happy today to present you with not just one, but two abstract games involving hexagonal pieces! Circle of Life, a game from Nick Bentley, and Tock, a classic from the public domain, are now available online on Board Game Arena. Play Circle of Life now! Those of you who played Blooms, a sleek and deep abstract reminiscent of Go, will immediately recognise the Zen aesthetics and taste for a minimalistic but efficient rule set from Nick Bentley. In Circle of Life, on your turn you have to set one stone of your colour on the board. Then if that stone creates a species pattern that is in contact with one of your opponent species following it immediately in the food chain (which is displayed as a circle around the board), the other species is immediately devoured! You win either by eating 20 of your opponent's stones, or if you can't play any more (which means that you managed to fill up the whole ecosystem with your species). Really simple, yes? But so many choices and possibilities! A big thank you to the game designer Nick Bentley (El Poopo), and to the software developer Adam Novotny (A-dam) for bringing this brand new game to the BGA community! Play Tock now! Tock is a classic game that is believed to have originated with the early settlers of Quebec, Canada. It is similar to Ludo, but no dice here! You'll get cards, and move your tokens around the board by choosing which card to spend. This makes the game much less luck based and much more challenging and interesting. The different cards allow for distinct special functions beyond just moving forward, and you'll have to make the best out of each new hand you are dealt in order to be the first to circle the board with all your tokens and win the race. And for some extra challenge, you can even play in teams! For this game, our thanks go to the software developer Jean Portemer (Woodruff) who after Innovation and French Tarot, got interested in Tock and created an adaptation using BGA studio to allow everyone to enjoy it online!
生命循環 & 托克棋
今天，我們很高興為您獻上不只一款，而是兩款抽象遊戲，兩者都包含到六角形要素 ！
Nick Bentley 的遊戲 Circle of Life (生命循環）和來自公有領域的經典遊戲 Tock (托克棋) 現在已可在Board Game Arena 上遊玩。
立即遊玩 Circle of Life！
那些玩過Blooms(一款像圍棋一樣簡約而深奧的抽象遊戲)的人會立即認出其禪宗美學和玩味由 Nick Bentley 設計簡而精的遊戲規則 。
在 Circle of Life 中 ，你必須在版圖上放置屬於你顏色的棋子。
然後，如果那枚棋子使一個物種圖樣與對手的物種接觸，且在食物鏈 （在圖版周圍環繞顯示）中比對方高一級，對手的物種會立即被吞噬 ！
當以下兩種情況之一發生時你獲勝：你吃了對手 20枚棋子；或者如果你不能再下任何棋子（這意味著你成功用自己的物種填滿了整個生態系統）。
真的很簡單，對吧？
但有很多選擇和可能性！
非常感謝遊戲設計師Nick Bentley （ El Poopo ）和軟體開發人員Adam Novotny （ A-dam ）將這款全新遊戲帶入BGA社群！
立即遊玩 Tock！
Tock是一款經典遊戲，據信起源於加拿大魁北克的早期移民。
它跟Ludo相似，但但不用骰子 ！
你將獲得卡片 ，並通過選擇並消耗卡片在版圖上移動標記物。
這使得遊戲的運氣大大降低，更具挑戰性和趣味性。
除了用於前進之外，不同的牌還具有獨特的特殊功能 ，並且你必須將發給你的每手牌做最大化的利用，才能成為第一個將所有標記物繞完棋盤一圈並贏得比賽的人 。
並且作為額外的挑戰，你甚至可以團隊遊玩 ！
對於這個遊戲，我們要感謝軟體開發人員Jean Portemer （ 伍德拉夫 ），他在完成曠世發明和法國塔羅牌之後對 Tock 產生了興趣，並使用 BGA studio 製作了其移植版本，使每個人都可以在線上享受它的樂趣！
