Visualize go this way, instantly make it 30 times easier to count

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Tumbleweed minus the stacking?

Tumbleweed: this game weirdly reminds me of Go

Tumbleweed is an abstract strategy game, designed by Polish mathematician and game designer Michał Zapała. Somehow, the rules are totally different than Go (placements are based on “lines of sight”), but somehow, a territorial game with captures emerges from the very simple ruleset. In this game, however, groups don’t always live and die together - so different notions of good/bad shape are used. I have played it now over a hundred times at the iggamecenter and I’m totally hooked. Probably, a st…

Oh says it was based on it I suppose the more or less free placement of stones (no suicides) does make it have more of a Go feel, although capturing with lines of sight is the non-go part.