TESS
Tactical Tiling
Bringing People Together, One Tile at a Time
For thousands of years, people have used repeating tiles to create beautiful patterns on the floors, walls, ceilings - of important monuments and religious structures.
Tess is a pattern-building game using tiles based on the Penrose rhombus—a special mathematical shape that, when placed correctly, creates patterns that never repeat. Invented by mathematician Roger Penrose (yes, he even patented them), these tiles have a kind of quiet magic.
Of course, Sud and I like to bend the rules a little—so our version doesn’t follow all of Penrose’s rules—but it still gives rise to stunning, unique designs in every game. You can see examples on our Instagram @okapia_games.
Tess - Box and Components
Box, Rule book, play mat, tiles, pattern cards, player tokens (4), scoring tokens
A pattern creation game for all ages
Place your tiles, score points for the most colourful patterns, complete patterns to score more points and win the game!
A new pattern everytime you play!
Generate a new colourful pattern each time you play!
Tess- very easy to learn! Yet not trivial to master
Takes minutes to teach and learn and many games to master!
Want to play a game with us?
We host games and also show up to play at board game cafes in Bengaluru (often), Kolkata( sometimes) and Chennai (rarely). Get in touch to play a game! Seen here with the amazing boardbuddiesbangalore.
