Take turns stuffing foam babies into a phone booth! While holding down the roof with one finger, use the other hand to stuff a foam baby into the phone booth. Slowly remove your finger from the roof. If the phone booth explodes you lose, and all the other players win. If it doesn't explode, then the next player takes their turn. Continue until the phone...
Stumped adds a huge twist to the traditional deck-building game: buildable miniature wooden trees. Your objective is simple: successfully grow a 10 leaf tree before your opponents do. But actually doing this can get a bit tricky, with a huge variety of 165 different cards, ranging from some downright nasty attack cards, to more growth-focused and defensive...
Sturdy Birdy - Roll the dice! Strike a pose! Find the perfect balance! Reggie the Pigeon dreams of life in the circus as a high wire acrobat. (Sadly, Reggie's flight abilities have never taken off.) Reggie needs your help to perfect 12 poses to land the high wire balancing, birdseed providing job he's always dreamed of. To do that players must master 12...
Subbuteo is a classic finger-flicking football-simulation action game. It is played on a large cloth playing field called a "pitch", with teams of miniature football players mounted on smooth round bases. The football players are made to kick the ball by flicking their bases, which causes them to slide around on the pitch, hitting the ball. The rules...
Subbuteo Cricket continued the line of sporting dexterity games started by Subbuteo football (soccer). The game was played on a green beige mat, similar to that use for the soccer version. The rules mimicked those of cricket (which will doubtless make this review impenetrable to most nationalities). The bowling side placed the small red plastic ball in the...
In Subbuteo rugby, you flick small plastic players on a cloth pitch to take possession of a small plastic rugby ball (similar shape to an American football). The rules included most elements of the sport of rugby - lineouts, scrums, offside, tries, kicked goals, etc. The game also included a number of specialized plastic components: figures which swung...
Subbuteo Penalty Shootout is a football (soccer game). It focuses on penalty taking. The attacking player flicks his Player to shoot the ball into the goal. The defending player operates the goalkeeper on a stick to defend the penalty kick. After taking 5 penalties each, the player with the most goals is the winner. A self contained game, it is designed to...
Subbuteo Free Kick is a football (soccer game). It focuses on set pieces. The attacking player flicks his Player to chip the ball into the goal using a ramp. The defending player positions a three man wall and operates the goalkeeper on a stick to defend the free kick. The first to five goals wins. A self contained game, it is designed to encourage younger...