What is "brax"

Brax is the name of the following communes in France:

• Brax, Haute-Garonne, in the Haute-Garonne department
• Brax, Lot-et-Garonne, in the Lot-et-Garonne department
  • Château de Brax, castle in the commune of Brax, France

Brax may also refer to

• Brax (game) a fairly simple abstract strategy board game.
• Darryl "Brax" Braxton a fictional character from the soap opera Home and Away.
• Tuija Brax (born 1965), Finnish politician and minister

Brax is a two-player abstract strategy board game. It was invented in 1889 (or shortly before) in America by Frederic B Denham of New York City. The board design is unique. There are several marked paths on the board where a player moves their pieces. A piece can move one or two spaces in a turn depending upon the color of the path. Players attempt to capture each other's pieces.

Brax was featured in the book by Klutz Press "The Book of Classic Board Games" (1991) which ranked it among the top 15 board games in history. The game is also known as Jinx. A unique feature in Brax and Jinx is that players can call out "Brax" or "Jinx" if their piece threatens the other player's piece(s). This forces the other player to move the threatened piece on their next move (no other piece may be moved), and the threatened piece is jinxed; hence the name of the game Jinx.

There are three-player, four-player, and "fox and geese" (hunt game) versions of Brax.