Stratego

Stratego is a strategy board game to be played by two players with fairly simplistic rules. Trademarked in 1947 by Dutchman Jacques Johan Mogendorff and originally manufactured distributed by Jumbo, the Milton Bradley Company bought the rights to it and distributed it across America to commercial success leading to future releases of licensed variants of the game. However the original idea for the game was patented by a French women named M. Hermance Eden in 1908 as ‘jue de bataille avec pieces mobiles sur damier’ which translates to ‘ a battle game with mobile pieces on a game board’. The game soon sold as L’Attaque is generally considered an ancestor and the inspiration for Stratego and was very popular all over Europe especially throughout World War 2 due to the common theme of war that engulfed this during this period. Although first advertised and catered towards an adult audience, Stratego quickly became a family favourite and today has amassed a large fan base reaching across the world and has even been adapted to be played as a computer game and over the internet. (History) The objective of the game is to find and capture the opponents flag or capture so many enemy pieces they are unable to move, this is achieved through players landing on their enemies pieces and both player’s piece subsequently being revealed with the weaker of the two pieces being removed from the board.