Description
Stake Your Claim is a 1 - 2 player strategy game for the TRS-80.
The year is 1849, and with rumors of vast amounts of gold waiting to be uncovered, many thousands of people left the relative safety of their homes for the chance of becoming rich. During this era, staking a claim on the piece of land where you intend to dig was essential. And you always had to be on the lookout for claim jumpers.
Played on a 5 x 5 board, players take turns staking a claim on the board. The goal is to collect as many squares as possible, with the rule being no player can claim a square on any of the 4 sides of their opponent's claim. The center square can never be claimed first. The game continues until no more squares can be played, and the player with the most squares gets points based upon how many more squares they have than their opponent. Allows for 2-player or 1-player versus computer gameplay. The first player to reach 7 points is the winner.
