The Enclosure

is a Board game created by Michel Boutin and published for the first time in Towards New Education n°402 (Ceméa) in April 1986.

The play opposes two players for part of approximately 15 minutes.

General principle

The players move their sheep and pose barriers. As soon as a player cannot move any sheep any more, its adversary gained.

Rules of the game

Material

a plan of play comprising 37 hexagonal boxes and 90 square passages between these boxes. The hexagons are fields, the squares of the passages between these fields, the triangles of the bushes infranchissables.
Note: it will be noticed that the plan of play represents one of the 8 Pavage S semi-regular.
3 white sheep and 3 black sheep
an about sixty barriers

Installation

At the beginning, the plan of play is empty of any barrier. The 6 sheep occupy the 6 boxes around the center while alternating black and white.

Goal of the play

To block the three unfavourable sheep. As soon as a player cannot move any more any of his sheep in his turn to play, it lost.

Unfolding

The player who was made mow most recently starts.

The turn of a player consists of two actions which it makes in the order of his choice:

to move one of its sheep towards a free nearby hexagon by borrowing a passage which is not stopped by a barrier;
to stop a passage with a barrier.

End of part and winner

When a player in his turn is unable to move one of these sheep, it lost the part. One can be blocked by barriers or the presence of sheep on the close boxes.

References

Articles

Michel Boutin, play of the enclosure. Note on the chess-boards , in " Towards Nouvelle" Education; n°402, Ceméa, April 1986.
Michel Boutin, Block the pedestrians! Of " Trap" with the play of the Enclosure , in " Tangente" n°73, Paris, February March 2000

Edition

Michel Boutin, 12 plays and their support with 12 aprons, 12 cards of rules, 110 pawns and 1 booklet proposing more than 40 plays , Ceméa, Paris, 1986

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