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A comprehensive study of the connection game genre, Connection Games provides a survey of known connection games while exploring common themes and strategies. This book aims to impose some structure on this increasingly large family of games, and to define exactly what constitutes a connection game. Key games are examined in detail and complete rules for over 200 connection games and variants are provided. A connection game is a board game in which players vie to develop or complete a specific type of connection with their pieces. This might involve forming a path between two or more goals, completing a closed loop, or gathering all pieces together into a single connected group. Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Table of Contents Preface Part One Defining Connection Chapter 1 What Is a Connection Game? Chapter 2 The Nature of Connection Chapter 3 Games as Graphs Chapter 4 Properties of Connection Games Chapter 5 Common Plays Chapter 6 Classification Part Two The Games Chapter 7 Pure Connection Games Chapter 8 Connective Goal Chapter 9 Connective Play Chapter 10 Connection-Related Games Part Three End Play Chapter 11 Rolling Your Own Chapter 12 The Psychology of Connection Part Four Appendices A Basic Graph Theory B Solving Shanon Game C Hex,Ties, and Trivalency D Strategy-Stealing E Point-Pairing Strategies F Y Reducation G Sperner's Lemmma H Tesselations References List of Games Index "In this comprehensive study of the connection game genre, Browne provides a survey of known connection games, such as Hex and Y, while exploring common themes and strategies." --Book Jacket. Connection games come in many different varieties, but all share a common theme: to develop or complete connections of some sort.