Two Player Abstract Board Games

[Matt Robertson]

Two Player Abstract Game Night Recap
Episode #02 - TZAAR (2025-12-23)
Matt, Elaine, Patrick, Bryan, & Carmen were in attendance for a few rounds of TZAAR. Afterwards, a few people played GIPF to get caught up on the series. 

TZAAR was another great game to get in play for our GIPF series and the games played very quickly. I will track results here, not for any reason but to diarize our sessions.
02a: Patrick vs Elaine (Patrick won)
02b: Bryan vs Carmen (Bryan won)
02c: Matt vs Elaine (Matt won)
02d: Bryan vs Patrick (Patrick won)
02e: Matt vs Bryan (Matt won)
02f: Patrick vs Carmen (Patrick won)
02g: Matt vs Carmen (Matt won)
02h: Bryan vs Elaine (Bryan won)
02i: Elaine vs Carmen (Elaine won)
02j: Matt vs Patrick (Matt won)

GIPF catch up games.
01d: Patrick vs Bryan (Patrick won)
01e: Patrick vs Bryan (Patrick won)
01f: Elaine vs Carmen (Elaine won)

Next up to play is ZERTZ. I will book it. It looks like we have at least three copies.

If anyone wants to play GIPF/TZAAR in the next month in the leadup to the next 2 Player Abstract Game Night, I am happy to bring out / teach.

[Matt Robertson]

Two Player Abstract Game Night Recap
Episode #03 - ZERTZ (2026-01-27)
Matt, Elaine, Patrick, Bryan, & Carmen, Jon, & Isha were in attendance for ZERTZ. Our full crew of 7!!! 

ZERTZ was another great game to get in play for our GIPF series and once again we found that the game played very differently from the previous two. I will track results here, not for any reason but to diarize our sessions.
03a: Patrick vs Isha (Isha won)
03b: Elaine vs Jon (Jon won)
03c: Bryan vs Carmen (Carmen won)
03d: Jon vs Patrick (Jon won)
03e: Carmen vs Isha (Isha won)
03f: Matt vs Elaine (Elaine won)
03g: Jon vs Carmen (Jon won)
03h: Matt vs Patrick (Patrick won)
03i: Bryan vs Isha (Bryan won)
03j: Carmen vs Matt (Matt won)
03k: Jon vs Bryan (Bryan won)
03l: Patrick vs Elaine (Elaine son)
03m: Jon vs Isha (Jon won)
03n: Elaine vs Carmen (Elaine won)
03o: Bryan vs Matt (Matt won)
03p: Patrick vs Carmen (Patrick won)
03q: Isha vs Matt (Matt won)
03r: Bryan vs Elaine (Elaine won)
03s: Bryan vs Patrick (Patrick won)
03t: Jon vs Matt (Matt won)
03u: Isha vs Elaine (Elaine won)

Next up to play is DVONN. It is booked, hope you can all make it. It looks like we have at least three copies.

If anyone wants to play GIPF/TZAAR/ZERTZ in the next month in the leadup to the next 2 Player Abstract Game Night, I am happy to bring out / teach.

[Carmen Pauls Orthner]

My ranking so far:
1. ZERTZ
2. TZAAR
3. GIPF

[Jon H]

My ranking so far:
1. ZERTZ
2. GIPF
3. TZAAR

[Matt Robertson]

Two Player Abstract Game Night Recap
Episode #04 - DVONN (2026-02-24)
Matt, Elaine, Carmen, & Jon were in attendance for DVONN.

DVONN is another great game in the series - Hell, they are all bangers. Once again we found that the game played very differently from the previous ones. I will track results here, not for any reason but to diarize our sessions.
04a: Elaine vs Matt (Elaine won)
04b: Carmen vs Jon (Jon won)
04c: Elaine vs Carmen (Elaine won)
04d: Jon vs Matt (Matt won)
04e: Carmen vs Matt (Matt won)
04f: Jon vs Elaine (Elaine won)

Next up to play is PUNCT.

If anyone wants to play GIPF/TZAAR/ZERTZ/DVONN in the next month in the leadup to the next 2 Player Abstract Game Night, I am happy to bring out / teach.

[Carmen Pauls Orthner]

I can't edit the main post. Please add us (Bryan, I guess) as having a copy of PUNCT.

[Northgreyraven]

We have now added Yinsh and Zertz to our collection from the recent BGB sale