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Even the Masters Are Pawns

Problem #1 with Onitama's tall-yet-slender box: it makes a nice header image impossible. Problem #2: everybody asks if it's Jenga.

I have a tender spot in my theme-and-potatoes soul for abstract games. And Onitama is one of the most gripping, teachable, and clever abstract games I’ve played in a very long time — perhaps the best, even, since The Duke. Maybe even better.

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