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DVONN

Abstract strategy board game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
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DVONN is a two-player strategy board game in which the objective is to accumulate pieces in stacks. It was released in 2001 by Kris Burm as the fourth game in the GIPF Project. DVONN won the 2002 International Gamers Award and the Games magazine Game of the Year Award in 2003.

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The public source identifies “DVONN” as abstract strategy board game. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around DVONN, Abstract and strategy.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001, 2002, 2003—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with DVONN, Abstract and strategy providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “DVONN” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.