Avalon Hill bought the 3M bookshelf line of games, and then Hasborg assimilated AH. Hasbro has sales rights I believe, but strangely, Kosmos is the only company selling new sets these days. Brain King might want to stay away from proprietary games, but I hope they join PBMserv, Little Golem, and Zillions in offering Twixt to the public.

Yes, Little Golem has 13x13 Hex, and Twixt "paper and pencil" which is almost Twixt, as I explain in my post from a few minutes earlier. Both these games are also available on PBMserv. If you have the software Zillions of Games you can play Twixt online in real time with opponents who also have Zillions. There are three active realtime Hex servers: Playsite, Kurnik (also available in Polish), and Ludoteka (available in English, Spanish, French, or Basque).

I appreciate the positive response, but Twixt has little to do with Go. Players take turns putting tokens on a large grid which starts out empty. Certain terms from Go are applicable to Twixt in a general sense: tesuji (tactics), joseki (corner battles), fuseki (openings), sente (initiative). That's about it. Go is much deeper of course, but Twixt is still over my head.

If Twixt is implemented here, I hope the official ruleset is used. Little Golem uses a mutant version where links are not removed, but you may cross your own links. This may actually reduce the incidence of draws, but it also turns some wins into losses. An example is here. In other words, I hope players would be able to remove their own links if desired. (Sometimes this is necessary to avoid a draw.) It adds to the complexity of the user interface, but no special clicking (such as right-clicking or shift-clicking) would be needed.

"loses in a meeting" ...? That's an ambiguous phrase. Of course the Rat may capture the Elephant. That's a separate issue from whether the Elephant may capture the Rat or not. The difference? WHO IS MOVING. Jungle is a turn-based game.

Would anyone else be interested in Hex or Twixt here? The object in each is quite similar; connect opposite edges with a continuous path of your pieces to win. Twixt rules are here: http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/proprietary/twixt/twixt1.html and Hex rules are here: http://www.playsite.com/t/games/board/hex/rules.html

Universe is a cool abstract for 2 to 4 players. It's usually finished in less than 8 moves by each player. Info is here: http://www.geocities.com/twixtplayer/Universe1.html Anyone interested?

In the "Features in development" list, Jungle is described as an "old Indian game." The only Jungle game I know of is Chinese, also called Shou Qi. Rules are here: http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/jungle.html#rules (Note: there is some debate among players as to whether the Elephant may capture the Rat or not.) Is this the game under development?

Thanks for your attention.

David