An Entity of Type: activity, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

The Game of the Generals, also called GG or GOG as it is most fondly called, or simply The Generals, is an educational war game invented in the Philippines by Sofronio H. Pasola Jr. in 1970. Its Filipino name is "Salpakan." It can be played within twenty to thirty minutes. It is designed for two players, each controlling an army, and a neutral arbiter (sometimes called a referee or an adjutant) to decide the results of "challenges" between opposing playing pieces, that like playing cards, have their identities hidden from the opponent.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Game of the Generals, also called GG or GOG as it is most fondly called, or simply The Generals, is an educational war game invented in the Philippines by Sofronio H. Pasola Jr. in 1970. Its Filipino name is "Salpakan." It can be played within twenty to thirty minutes. It is designed for two players, each controlling an army, and a neutral arbiter (sometimes called a referee or an adjutant) to decide the results of "challenges" between opposing playing pieces, that like playing cards, have their identities hidden from the opponent. The game simulates armies at war trying to overpower, misinform, outflank, outmaneuver and destroy each other. It optimizes the use of logic, memory, and spatial skills. It simulates the "fog of war" because the identities of the opposing pieces are hidden from each player and can only be guessed at by their location, movements, or from the results of challenges. The game allows only one side's plan to succeed, although a player may change plans during the course of the game. In addition, there are two different ways of winning the game (see below). Certain strategies and tactics, however, allow both sides the chance of securing a better idea of the other's plan as the game progresses. Players can also speak or gesture to their opponents during matches, hoping to create a false impression about the identity of their pieces or their overall strategy. (en)
  • O Jogo dos Generais é um jogo inventado nas Filipinas por em 1970. A partida leva entre 20 a 30 minutos. (pt)
dbo:genre
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 8230082 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 28168 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1124293616 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:ages
  • All ages (en)
dbp:genre
dbp:imageCaption
  • Box cover of the 1981 version (en)
dbp:imageLink
  • Game of the Generals box cover.jpg (en)
dbp:italicTitle
  • Hlw to play this game? Yes (en)
dbp:players
  • 1 (xsd:integer)
dbp:playingTime
  • 7200.0
dbp:publisher
  • Sofronio H. Pasola Jr. (en)
dbp:randomChance
  • Yes (en)
dbp:setupTime
  • 180.0
dbp:skills
dbp:title
  • Game of the Generals (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • O Jogo dos Generais é um jogo inventado nas Filipinas por em 1970. A partida leva entre 20 a 30 minutos. (pt)
  • The Game of the Generals, also called GG or GOG as it is most fondly called, or simply The Generals, is an educational war game invented in the Philippines by Sofronio H. Pasola Jr. in 1970. Its Filipino name is "Salpakan." It can be played within twenty to thirty minutes. It is designed for two players, each controlling an army, and a neutral arbiter (sometimes called a referee or an adjutant) to decide the results of "challenges" between opposing playing pieces, that like playing cards, have their identities hidden from the opponent. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Game of the Generals (en)
  • Jogo dos generais (pt)
owl:differentFrom
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:homepage
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Game of the Generals (en)
is dbo:wikiPageRedirects of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License