A free game of
push and position.
Sumito is a two-player strategy game on a hexagon board. Move lines of up to three marbles, outnumber your rival to push, and be the first to push six of their marbles off the edge.
What you can do
- Play a friend on one device, or play the computer at three levels. The computer explains its moves.
- Learn with a one-minute tutorial on the real board, hints, and three short puzzles.
- Review any match move by move, and share the replay with one link.
- Play on a phone in portrait or landscape, on a tablet, or on a desktop. It also works offline once loaded.
Built in the open
Sumito is open source under the MIT licence. The code, rules engine, tests, and a small Python research environment are on GitHub. Bug reports, ideas, and pull requests are welcome.
It is built with React and vinext, and runs on Cloudflare Workers. Sounds are made in the browser, and all artwork is drawn with CSS and SVG.
Who made it
Designed and developed by Kashif Aziz.
Title fonts: Cinzel and Cinzel Decorative by Natanael Gama, served by Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License.
Inspired by Abalone
Sumito is an independent, open-source game inspired by the board game Abalone, designed by Michel Lalet and Laurent Lévi (1987). Abalone is a trademark of its respective owner.
Sumito is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the Abalone trademark owner or publisher. All code, artwork, sounds, and text in Sumito are original.
The name comes from sumito, the term players use for a push made with more marbles than the opponent.