GIPF Project

As soon as they want to use the special power of one of their potential pieces during the GIPF game, they put the GIPF board aside and play the game linked to that specific potential piece (in the example above ZÈRTZ and DVONN, respectively a coin flip and a dice roll).

As of 2022[update], YINSH, TZAAR, DVONN, LYNGK, ZÈRTZ, GIPF, and PÜNCT are, respectively, the 3rd, 8th, 11th, 19th, 20th, 35th, and 80th highest ranked Abstract Games on Boardgamegeek.

[4] The games are based on elements: TAMSK (time), ZÈRTZ (water), DVONN (fire), YINSH (air), TZAAR (earth), and PÜNCT (the interconnectivity of the brain).

GIPF derives from the German word for a mountain summit ("Gipfel"), where the original game was conceived.

Subsequent games were named to include one vowel and 4 consonants, but to otherwise remain unrelated to existing language.