After playing Pentagon, I really enjoyed it. As the box indicates, it is very quick to pick up and similar enough to tic tac toe which everyone has played. One connection that isn’t very similar that I would make is chess. Chess requires you to think multiple steps ahead of your opponent and challenges you to see every single possibility. This is something I found in Pentago. Being a very competitive person as well, I enjoyed the idea that it was me vs the other person, and that it is in a sense who is smarter or who is thinking further down the line in terms of moves.
I am definitely going to purchase this game and give it to my dad as a Christmas gift because he is the logical type that would obsess over a game like this with friends and family.