The game selected for the second edition of MAIC is the board game Seega. The origins of the Seega date back to ancient times when Egypt was under Roman rule. It is still practiced in present-day in Egypt, in Ethiopia and especially in Somalia. In Somalia, when Bedouins guiding camels through the desert find themselves facing a sandstorm, they pitch their tents and spend time developing new tactics. Seega is a 5 × 5 board game in which each player has 12 pieces. Some variants are played on larger boards of 7 × 7 or 9 × 9.
MAIC 2018 used the classical 5 × 5 board. The goal of the gameis to capture all the pieces of your opponent (or as much as possible when the game arrives at a blocking configuration). Seega is deterministic, turn-taking, two-players, zero-sum, with complete and perfect information about the board. Seega has two different phases, one as strategic as the other: the deployment phase and the movements phase.