In Root Bound, living plants expand across the board in a struggle for territory. With each advance, future options dwindle, and careless growth can leave a plant tangled, cut off, and withered. Root Bound won the BoardGameGeek Abstract Games Forum s Best Combinatorial 2-Player Game of 2024 . As an abstract strategy game, Root Bound requires only a hexagonal board and pieces in two colors. Root Bound draws inspiration from the game of Go, Mark Steere s Take, Michael Amundsen s Cavity, and Michael Amundsen and Luis Bola os Mures s Lifeline. —description from the designer

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