Gunzi has been invented by me in the inland country of Suriname in the small village Gunzi.
It is a two persons mind game where both players play with four wooden wedges. The board has 17 hexagonal fields.
Every move provides new, difficult, unpredictable situations. You must think in a different way, use tricky actions to disturb your opponent, make the correct choices and remember
that even in the darkest hour, there might be an escape.
Aim of the game is to conquer or disarm as many wedges of the opponent with retention of your own
wedges.
The Gunzi wedges have a white and a black side. Both players use exactly the same wedges. The
colour which lies above indicates to which player the wedge belongs.
You can disable (Punch) a wedge of the opponent (it changes into a dead tombstone) or Roll-over (overturn an rival wedge and change its color and owner) or, at the second stage of the game, appropriate a rival’s wedge with a pillar-blow (a wedge is taken by the existing pillar and increases the area belonging to this pillar).
The game knows two phases.
At the first stage the wedges will be occupied especially for conquest
and to disable hostile wedges, on their way to the two most distant fields on the other side of the board
(called the promotion fields). At the same time you must prevent or slow down your opponent’s
promotion.
The second phase starts when a wedge has reached one of these promotion fields and turn
into a pillar. The pillar cannot move itself, but creates a definite property of the fields surrounding him
and furthermore can increase this area. The pillar’s containing wedges count double at the end of the
game.
Characteristic for Gunzi is that the wedges make an obligatory turn with every move of the wedge (the
swerve). All sides of the Gunzi-wedge have special power influences to both its own and hostile wedges at all adjacent fields.
Better better pay attention to be prepared to all the quirks and tricks your opponent might try on you.
Don’t let them catch you!
So let me explain Gunzi to you in the English spoken video Below.
For the rules of the game in text and pictures, go to Gunzi users manual
The digital Gunzi online
Brothers Ed and Herbert Schrama have made software for a computer or laptop so you can play Gunzi against our server. With this software you can also play online against other players. Unfortunately, there is no app yet suited for the phone.
If you want to play for free and without advertising, against the server or against another player who is online, download the player (= made for Windows) from the link below.
Then open the: GunziSetup.exe file to install the player.
Your computer may report that it does not trust the publisher. I hope you don’t be put off by this.
We do not have a Microsoft authentication code.
We would have to pay $ 289 per year for this code, only to prevent them from reporting the “unknown publisher”. That is of course a smart way to usurp money, but we prefer to use it for the development of our game.
Moreover, if you do not trust it, you can always scan the GunziSetup.exe file yourself with your security software.
We provide it for free, because we believe that a brain game is good for a child’s development (and to keep adults on their toes).
Here the instructions how to install the software and how to play online against the server.
GUNZI MORTALE is a complete different game with the same wedges and playboard and very few rules.
The aim of Mortale, is to reduce your own army, and to end up with the least amount of wedges.
Click for a video on You Tube on the link below
You can play it on your computer with the following program made by Maris Koopmans. The pc doesn’t answer, so you can play it with a friend or you must play against yourself.
Select a wedge with your mouse and choose a move. The colour around the board tells you who’s turn it is.