Edward de Bono · 1967

The L Game

Trap your opponent's L. Two minds, sixteen squares.
How to play

Owned counters is a house variant: each counter wears a ring in its owner's colour, and you may only move your own. de Bono's original rules use shared counters — either player may move either one.

Drag your L around the board; press R to rotate and F to flip while holding it (or use the buttons). Tap once to pick a piece up, tap again to place it. Esc puts it back.

Invented by Edward de Bono and published in The Five-Day Course in Thinking (1967) — designed to be the smallest possible "real" strategy game.