2018 · (Web published)
Winner of the 2018 Best Combinatorial Game award, Blooms is a 2-player game where players capture each other’s pieces by surrounding them.
It was inspired by the classical game Go and a painting in an Oregon coffee shop.
Rules
Bloom : a bloom is an entire group of connected stones on the board of the same color. A single stone (unconnected to others of the same color) is also a bloom.
Liberty : a liberty is an empty space adjacent to a stone.
Fenced : a bloom is fenced when there are no liberties adjacent to any of the bloom’s stones.
