Continuo is an abstract strategy game by Maureen Hiron which was first published in 1982 and now distributed in board game form by David Westnedge Ltd. In the U.K and U.S. Games Systems in the U.S. It is played by arranging patterns printed on a deck of 42 cards, each card being printed with a grid of 16 colored squares. The goal is to place cards so that the tiles match as many chains of color as possible.Boardgamegeek Continuo page http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1190/continuo Continuo sold over 200,000 units in the United Kingdom alone within a few months of being launched. Continuo won a 1995 Mensa Select games award.List of Mensa select winners The tag line on the box is "The one rule game for all the family".
Versions of the game have also been published in which the same basic rule is used, but the tiles are triangular or rhombic rather than square and the hexagonal domino type game Hexago was also marketed under the Continuo name. Continuo was endorsed by Omar Sharif.
There has been a Continuo tournament at the Mind Sports Olympiad since 1997, to determine the world champion.
Rule
Continuo consists of 42 tiles.Article about Continuo at MSO (http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=continuo ) 10 - 06 - 2010 These tiles are subdivided into a 4×4 grid of small squares. All of the tiles are diagonally symmetrical with an L-shape of one colour with a single small square of another in the corner. There are 4 colours in total: red, green, blue and yellow.
The aim of the game is to score points by making 'chains' of colour and a point is scored for the length in small squares of each chain that the placed tile makes. A chain has to be squares that touch horizontally or vertically.
Hexago Maureen Hiron also held the world championships for another of her games; Hexago (or Hexago Continuo).Article about Hexago at MSO (http://www.boardability.com/game.php?id=hexago ) 09 - 09 - 2010 Although being a tile game branded with the same name as Continuo, it is only the immediately touching tiles that affect the score as opposed to the chains in Continuo. It is a game with hexagonal tiles split into 6 triangles each with a colour and a number. Each time a tile is placed touching so that it matches either the segments colour or number, points are scored.Boardgame geek on Hexago
Champions The Continuo World Champions from 1997 onwards are: 1997: Osamo Omadero 1998: Demis Hassabis 1999: Tony Niccoli 2000: George Hassabis 2001: Jan Palmgren 2002: Dario De Toffoli 2003: Mathew Cordell 2004: Victoria Westnedge 2005: Mathew Cordell 2006: Mathew Cordell 2007: Mathew Cordell 2008: Mathew Cordell 2009: Matthew Hathrell 2010: Matthew Hathrell 2011: David M. Pearce 2012: Tony Niccoli 2013: Maureen Hiron 2014: Mathew Cordell 2015: Ricardo Jorge Gomes 2016: David M. Pearce
The Hexago World Championships have been held once in 2007 during the Mind Sports olympiadHexago results from the MSO website http://www.boardability.com/result.php?id=hexago 10 - 06 - 2010 2007: David M. Pearce
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See also List of world championships in mind sports Mind Sports Olympiad
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