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There is a hexagonal shogi variant with 3 players The problem is that 2 players kind of would team up to get the third player out of the game which is imbalanc

There is a hexagonal shogi variant with 3 players The problem is that 2 players kind of would team up to get the third player out of the game which is imbalanced. Than you have a 2 player game ..

mr_toad 3y ago
But there is the possibility of betrayal and switching sides. In a winner takes all game as soon as one player looks like they’re winning the weaker players have an incentive to gang up on them.
- cubefox 3y ago
  That sounds way more fun actually.
- macintux 3y ago
  The story of how Diplomacy was invented is interesting: they were playing the card game Hearts and discussed how it would change the game balance if players were encouraged to team up against the person with the low score.
rtpg 3y ago
An even more subtle problem is that attacking feels like a bad idea because if A and B go at each other, they both lose pieces while C is unaffected. Maybe you can imagine some circular pinning that involves 3 players but...well.