Gold fever has struck the nature park! In Shiny Bandits, you deploy your bandit gang of magpies, foxes, and raccoons to collect the most gold. Reveal the location card. Choose one of your bandits. Play an action card to outsmart your rivals AND claim the gold. Gather the most gold with your bandit gang of magpies, foxes and racoons Compact game full of...
七福廊 (Shichi Fukurou) is a 2 player card game from Japan. Players are trying to collect seven wise owls to win, or lose getting the five unhappy cats. The publisher says the English title is Seven Lucky Owls. The Japanese title is likely a reference to the Shichi Fukujin (七福神), the Seven Lucky Gods; replacing the word fukurou (梟; owl) with a clever...
Did you know that a group of sharks is called a Shiver? Shiver is a DeckBuilding game designed thematically around sharks. You will Entice sharks to join your Shiver, making a larger Deck, which will help Entice or Scavenge larger sharks throughout the game. Players start with a deck of 8 sharks and draw 4 each turn. In the middle of the table is a...
Create the highest scoring shoal as you decide which fish stay and which fish go. Every fish can help or hinder your overall score so strategically pick the fish you wish to add, cover or keep as you layer your cards to achieve goals and create your very own shoal. On your turn simply play a card then draw a card from one of the 2 piles. Shoal only has 4...
Tori (Bird) Shogi is a delightful variant played on a 7×7 board that dates from the late 18th century. It is thought to have been the first Shogi variant to utilize drops (a mechanic in the modern version of 9×9 Shogi and absent from the original 9×9 Sho Shogi). Each piece is named after a type of bird. The royal piece (King) is the Phoenix. Other pieces...
どうぶつしょうぎ - Let's Catch the Lion! (a.k.a. Dōbutsu Shōgi, which means "animal shogi") is a simple version of Shogi. Both players have only four pieces – chick, giraffe, elephant and lion – and they're trying to either catch the opponent's lion or move their own lion to the other side. The board is just 3×4 squares, so the game is rather short, aimed mostly...
Yōkaï no Mori contains two simpler versions of Shogi to introduce the game to new players and youngsters. In the classic version, each player has only four pieces – kodama, tanuki, kitsune, and koropokkuru – and they're trying to either catch the opponent's koropokkuru or move their own koropokkuru to the opposite side of the game board. The board is just...
A simpler version of Shogi or a more complex version of Let's Catch the Lion! (aka Dōbutsu Shōgi or animal shogi), using the illustrations and look of the latter. Every player has just 8 pieces (3 chicks, 2 cats, 2 dogs and 1 lion) and try to catch the opponents lion. The board is 5x6 squares, so it's a shorter game than regular Shogi, aimed at getting...
A shogi variant intended to introduce classic board games to young children. It has been released under public domain and made available as a print and play game. Each player start the game with 5 animals: a carp (pawn), a tapir, a raccoon-dog (bishop), a fox (rook) and either a crane or a pheasant (king). Each piece move one square towards any direction...
Inspired by the traditional Italian game of Scopa, Shokoba is a card game in which two to four players play cards from their hands to collect jewel cards from the table. (With four players, Shokoba is typically played in teams.) The forty-card deck consists of 27 sapphires, 9 rubies, 3 emeralds and 1 diamond. At the start of a round, each player receives...
Shore Seekers utilizes the theme of turtle migration to help engage kids across numerous math levels, from addition to early multiplication. Shore Seekers is good for developing addition skills as players roll up to three dice, one at a time, adding the revealed numbers with the goal of reaching a sum equal to or less than seven. Shore Seekers also helps...