I recently purchased Zertz, a game I'm sure none of you have ever heard of, and I must say, it rocks.

It's an abstract game which borrows from checkers and includes cool stuff like terraforming. Also, all pieces can be used by both players. The goal is to gather a said number of marbles from the three colours available, or 3 of each. The catch: it takes a very different approach to win as every marble you place on the board can be used against you. In the end it's a game of endless possibilities and strategies, and limiting those possibilities untill only those to your advantage remain by carefully placing marbles and removing parts of the board is the path to victory.

As with great videogames the concept and basic ruleset is very limited, but the amount of depth created by them is staggering. Thus I won't tire myself any more trying to tell you all about it, but I'll just post a link to the Zertz official website (which is pretty crud, I must admit) and some place where you can play,and view others play, the game online. The game has won numerous prizes, including one handed out by mensa, the high IQ society.

After all is said and done, I happened across this pic, which explains the basic rules perfectly: