Tak A Beautiful Game Second Edition Board Game"My next several hours were spent learning how to play tak. Even if I had not been nearly mad with idleness, I would have enjoyed it. Tak is the best sort of game: simple in its rules, complex in its strategy. Bredon beat me handily in all five games we played, but I am proud to say that he never beat me the same way twice." Kvothe Tak is a two player abstract strategy game dreamed up by Pat Rothfuss in "The Wise Man's Fear" and made reality by James