Emergo (board game)

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Emergo is an abstract strategy game created by Christian Freeling and Ed van Zon in 1986. It belongs to the "stacking" category of games, or column checkers, along with Bashni and Lasca.^[2] The name comes from the motto of the Dutch province of Zeeland: Luctor et emergo meaning: "I wrestle and emerge".^[3] The goal of the game is to capture all of the opponents pieces similar to checkers/draughts. Emergo, and all column checkers, differ from most draughts variants because of their unique method of capture. An opponent's piece is added to the capturing player's column rather than being removed. Men can be recaptured from an opponent later on in the game.^[4]