Polarity Game

Polarity is a game that you learn more about the more you play it.

The basic idea is simple: use magnetic discs together with strategy to cause your opponent to make a mistake. The rules can be learned within ten minutes, and the hardest part for the beginner (which actually isn't that hard at all) is feeling how to place "leaners" (the standing pieces that lean on a magnetic "cushion" against your flat foundation pieces).

As long as you stay within the rules, there are loads of ways in which you can try to defeat your opponent. Do you play defensively on the edge of the board, or go on the offensive near the centre? Will you play your own game, or try to read and react to what your opponent is doing? Will you try for double or even triple leaners, or is that too much of a gamble? The possibilities are many.

You can also practice Polarity on your own, which means it doesn't have to stay in a cupboard until you can find someone else to play it with. Also, as the board is actually a canvas mat, a game in progress looks cool just laying on a table.

Polarity must be the only board game in the world in which you literally have to use the force (magnetic force, that is). It's very simple for even non-gamers to pick up and games don't take much longer than forty-five minutes to an hour. I highly recommend it!