Ed's Stratego Site - Miscellaneous Stratego Tidbits

Probe, the best Stratego program in the known universe,
is available as a free download.

Probe is a full-featured program with many options:

Classic, Enhanced and Blitz modes

Four Skill Levels

Learning (Probe adapts to your style)

Range Attacks, One-time Bombs and Aggression

Special moves that are unique to Probe Enhanced mode

Power Squares, also unique to Probe Enhanced mode

Choice of Piece Sets and Boards, or design your own

Three Board Sizes

Undo and Redo moves

Save games and Autoplay game logs

Upload and Download shared setups

Real-time Prompts and Tips to assist novices

Strategic or Random setups

Persistent display of revealed pieces, or rely on your memory

Move search Progress Bar and audible Move Alert

Drag-and-drop setup creator

My name and site were mentioned (but no URL given) in a
February 2005 article in Southern California's Orange County Register.

http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/02/19/sections/news/news/article_414857.php

If, for whatever reason the above page no longer exists,
you can read the same story here.

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Results of the above lawsuit:

http://www.springfieldnews.com/articles/2005/11/30/local/news10.txt

If, for whatever reason the above page no longer exists,
you can read the same story below:

Family loses ‘Stratego’ suit

A Springfield woman and her siblings’ claim that Hasbro, Inc., infringed on their copyright with the popular board game “Stratego” has been denied by a federal judge in Portland.

Heidi Cox, of Springfield, and her relatives claimed their late father, Gunter Sigmund Elkan, developed a game he called “Strategy” that was similar to the popular Hasbro game.

They relied on a 1948 rejection letter from the Milton Bradley Company that they found among his personal papers to bolster the case that the game’s concept was stolen.

The company, now owned by Hasbro, began producing “Stratego” in 1961.

In court, Hasbro pinpointed the origin of “Stratego” to Dutchman Jacques Johan Mogendorff in 1942. The company has paid millions in royalties to Mogendorff’s family.

In a 12-page ruling, a U.S. district judge found that Hasbro disproved the Elkan claim of ownership.

Ed's Stratego Site was also mentioned in the January 2004 issue of FHM,
in the article titled
The 50 Greatest Games Of All Time!
Whoo hoo! I'm famous!

If you own a copy of the 1990 Accolade Stratego program and lost your code wheel, this wonderfully written utility will come in very handy. It is a Windows program and is so intuitive no directions are necessary.

The author has requested to remain anonymous but is willing to offer it here for your convenience. It is zipped up and will require WinZip or something equivalent to extract the single executable file.

Note: The program requires the file vbrun300.dll to be present in your windows/system directory. If you do not have a copy of this file, you may download it here.

Above is a partial screenshot
of the program.

In 1984, GAMES Magazine created their Games Hall of Fame to honor games that have met or exceeded the highest standard of quality and play value and have been continuously in production for at least 10 years. Once inducted, a game remains in the Hall of Fame as long is it continues to be available.

Stratego is one of the games listed in this Hall of Fame.

(Currently, the other members are Acquire, Axis & Allies, Blockhead, Bridgette, Civilization, Clue, Diplomacy, Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, Mille Bornes, Monopoly, Othello, Pente, Risk, Scrabble Crossword Game, The Settlers of Catan, Sorry, Taboo, Tribond, Trivial Pursuit, Twister, Twixt, and Yahtzee.)

Here's what Jon Freeman had to say about Stratego in the 1979 book The Playboy Winner's Guide to Board Games	A review of Accolade's 1990 Stratego computer game, from the January 1991 issue of Computer Gaming World	Michael Ziegler, publisher of Fountainhead Books, is offering a 72 page booklet on Stratego! Click here for details!
Strategia an extension to Stratego by Dave O'Brien	Piece images from my 1996 Stratego game	Images from Mike McGuire's old Stratego set
Here's a Stratego variant with a Japanese theme	Also, a W.W.II Naval version of Stratego with counter set & map	Do you own an old Stratego set with wooden pieces? If so, you may be interested to know all wooden pieces are not the same!
Alternate Stratego Boards!