Fritzlein wrote:
Furthermore, it was a one-off. It's not on the box or the arimaa.com home page. Omar likes to experiment, and it seemed like a good idea at the time he wrote it. :)
Well, that's a relief. I can appreciate the humor, but it seems to me that it doesn't quite belong in the info section. Someone coming here to learn what Arimaa is isn't going to get the right impression.
It's the kind of description one might expect for a Eurogame or even a Cheapass game - not an abstract. I imagine a long description of chess that claims that there was some highly ritualized form of ancient warfare where only one soldier could move at a time, and the religious figures in the battle could only move diagonally, etc.