Tarati — Abstract Strategy Board Game
Tarati is an abstract strategy board game created by George Spencer-Brown, the mathematician and author of Laws of Form. It applies his calculus of distinctions to gameplay: a minimalist structure with deep strategic consequence. Play free online at tarati.tech — in your browser, on Android or on Desktop.
How to play
Each player starts with four Cobs on their home base and moves along the edges of a board of 23 vertices arranged in concentric zones. A piece moves to an adjacent free vertex and flips every eligible enemy piece connected to it — but only enemies it approaches from outside (the pre-adjacency rule). A Cob that reaches the opponent's base is promoted to a Rok, which moves freely in any direction. You win by capturing the last enemy piece in a single move (Mit) or leaving the opponent with no legal move (Stalemit).
Features
- Free online multiplayer with matchmaking, Glicko-2 ranking, leaderboards and tournaments
- AI opponents with four difficulty levels and chess-style position analysis
- Interactive tutorial that introduces the rules step by step
- Tarati Six — a multiplayer variant for 2 to 6 players on an expanded board
- Available on Web, Android, Windows, macOS and Linux