First introduced in the 1970s, Pente is a contemporary strategy game based upon several closely related games that have been popular in Asia for centuries – most notably the game of Go! The object is simple – the first player to place 5 stones in a row or to capture 5 pairs of opposing stones is the winner.

• A contemporary strategy game?
• Includes 1 roll-up game board with rubber backing
• Comes with 4 sets of colored glass stones in 4 cloth drawstring storage bags
• Great for family game night
• Recommended for ages 8 and up
• Designed for 2 to 4 players

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Pente is a strategy board game for two or more players, created in 1977 by Gary Gabriel, a dishwasher at Hideaway Pizza, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Customers played Pente at Hideaway Pizza on checkerboard tablecloths while waiting for their orders to arrive. Thirty years later, patrons are still playing Pente at Hideaway Pizza, although now with roll-up Pente boards. Pente is based on the Japanese game ninuki-renju, a variant of renju or gomoku that is played on a Go board of 19×19 intersections with white and black stones. Like ninuki-renju, Pente allows captures, but Pente added a new opening rule. In the nineteenth century, gomoku was introduced to Britain where it was known as “Go Bang.”