Jeux de pions pour aujourd'hui is a set of laminated cardstock game boards, stickers for placing on pieces (not supplied, but easy to find or improvise), and an activity book containing historical flavor text in French and rules in both French and English, all packaged in a clear plastic pouch. The game boards, sticker sheets and rules included in the set...
In Jewel Box, players will be collecting and placing unique beetles from 5 different beetle families: Jewels, Longhorns, Scarabs, Ladybugs, and Weevils. Within each of the 5 families are 15 unique beetles. Each turn, players will roll the dice and take the corresponding beetle from the log. After collecting their beetle, they will place it in front of...
The Emperor Penguin looooves jewelry! In Jewels for the Emperor Penguin, each player takes charge of a five-member penguin guild that must scale the icy walls of the Valley of the Emperor Penguin, gathering gems — emeralds, rubies, sapphires, and diamonds — and making advantageous exchanges to acquire the specific gem-recipes needed to claim objective...
A colorful children's game in which hedgehogs try to collect the best fruit and avoid spoiled plums. The players occupy the edges of rows onto which fruit tiles are placed. Once a row is filled up, a player occupying it can grab the tiles and collect points; if the series in a row is a particular configuration (e.g. all fruit of the same type or color) it...
This c. 1940s game has an unusual mechanism: competitive jig-saw! The game consists of six similar jig-saw puzzles. The images are the same, but the piece shapes for each puzzle are different. Each of the 36-piece puzzles has a row of frogs, alternately jumping and sitting on lily pads. When completed, they measure 23.5" long by 2.5" wide. As soon as the...
Edwardian game that rewards good jiggling and joggling! The rules (as written inside the box lid): THE FROG RACE “JIGGLE JOGGLE” BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT — — DIRECTIONS Any number of players may engage in this game, the more the better. Place all frogs in a row, the object being to jerk the frogs along the whole length of the cords, the first frog that...
The cat leaders who live in the city decided to use Cat Racing to settle the endless fights on territory, and so they have come to the forest. The mouse henchmen heard rumors of the race, and so they have schemed to use the fights among the cat fellows, who have always tormented them, to make money. Then……the usually quiet forest stadium, where cats’ and...
Jin Li (锦鲤) is the Chinese word for Koi. Koi are friendly fish. They love getting close to other koi, rubbing up against each other, gathering in small groups. In Jin Li the players each control two koi in a pond. They swim their fish through the placid water, maneuvering around or jumping over stones that are dropped into the pond, and score points by...
Jingo covers a whole host of picture bingo games, centered around a litany of topics. The base description on this entry comes from an existing entry for Space Jingo, but all of the Jingo games operate in roughly the same manner. From the introduction for this: "Space J-I-N-G-O! is a special treat that you and your friends/students will enjoy playing again...