Up or Down is a roll-and-write game that uses a set of polydice; d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20 (also known as RPG set). Players try to make an Up or Down in their turn, by creating a sequence of dice that is either ascending or descending. This earns them points. Scores are counted after 9 rounds and whoever has the most points wins. Up or Down exists only as...
Up or Down? is a fast-paced trivia game where players combine general knowledge with clever guessing. One player answers a trivia question with their best guess, and the others must decide whether the actual answer is up (higher) or down (lower) than the given response. With a wide range of topics, the game keeps everyone on their toes. Players score...
Cardboard tile that was originally given as a promo at Essen Spiel 2024 if you bought the game at the ABACUSSPIELE booth. It contains a wheel that you can punch out. On the cardboard tile an arrow is present and by randomly putting in the wheel in the hole on the cardboard where you have punched the wheel out, one of the 6 colors is selected. Every card of...
Each player has four merchant ships which they are trying to race across their own "side" of the board to the home port. They also have a submarine (which can attack the merchants) and a destroyer (which can counter-attack the sub). The game is basically like "Battleships" with movement. The cool part of the game is the board. The board stands up...
Do you have what it takes to work the high steel and win Taking turns, players roll the die to decide which action to take. Roll an I-Beam to add to your structure and reach for the sky. Roll a Stop Work Sign to block your opponent. Roll a Crossbar to turn your opponent's work into your work. As you build, your worker figurine climbs higher and higher. But...
“This campaign is a hard row to hoe. It is the most difficult country in Europe, and yet we always get troops and equipment taken away from us for elsewhere. We have done all the fighting on a very narrow margin of relative strengths.” - Oliver Leese, Commander 8th Army Up the Boot is an operational simulation of the Italian campaign from the invasion of...
Up The......Corporation was designed to take an irreverent look at the corporate office environment. Everyone who has ever worked in an office will recognize the “employees” in this game, as they will have met their counterparts. The situations presented are actual experiences with incompetent management, office politics, corporate rules, unending...
An interesting card game where players try to complete three canoes using various cards with parts of the canoes on them. These include: Indians or empty sections of the canoe, Prey or Booty (Birds, Skins, Tobacco, Firewater, Teepees, Powder Kegs), Hunters (Bear hunter, Buffalo hunter, Cowboy, Gold prospector, Lumberjack, Soldier), Hunters Prey (Bear...
A children's roll and move game combined with a touch of dexterity. The game board is a huge ladder, the playing pieces are little men carrying sacks on their backs. Each player has four of these with four different sack colors. Driven by dice, these men walk up (and occasionally down) the ladder, trying to reach the top. When three men stand on the same...
Up the Nile: Wargames rules for fighting battles in the Sudan 1883-1885 Attrition based rules system to simulate battles against the Mahdists at the end of the XIXth century. Folowing initiative roll - Turn Sequence: Own Commanders Movement Own Movement Declare own firing Enemy test reaction to being under fire Melee Enemy test reaction to being in melee...