Star is a two-player
abstract strategy board game developed by
Craige Schensted (now
Ea Ea). It was first published in
1983 in
Games magazine. It is connection game, related to games such as
Hex,
Y,
Havannah, and
TwixT. Unlike these games, however, the result is based on a player having a higher final
score rather than achieving a specific goal. He has since developed a slightly more complicated version called
*Star with better balance between edge and center moves, writing "*Star is what those other games wanted to be."