Fjords (board game)

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Fjords
Players explore and colonize a Nordic fjord.
Designer	Franz-Benno Delonge
Publisher	Hans im Glück Rio Grande Games
Players	2
Age range	8 years and up
Setup time	1 minute
Playing time	30 minutes
Random chance	Medium
Skills required	Tile placement

Fjord is a tile-based German-style board game designed by Franz-Benno Delonge and published in 2005 by Hans im Glück and Rio Grande Games. Unlike other games in the genre, Fjord is strictly limited to two players, dubbed black and white. The game is played in two phases: exploration and expansion. In the first phase, the players place hexagonal tiles on the gaming table in alternating sequence. On some of the tiles they place their four villages. In the second phase, they expand from their villages by placing pellets of their colour on the tiles. The player who succeeds in placing the most pellets (by cutting off the other player's access to tiles) wins the game.

This game is not to be confused with the game Fjord, a military simulation situated in Norway during World War II.