CATS. They’re adorable, they’re playful, they’re our little fur babies. And now you get to rescue them! Players take charge of sanctuaries, gathering resources and taking cats out of the city shelter. They then match those adorable pets with adopters who are searching for their unique traits. The rescuers who find the most homes for cats, and who achieve...
Sandwürmchen (Baby Sand Worms) was invented by Peter Lewe. The children get a box with real sand in it, complete with a plastic cover to keep the sand from running out. There are six spaces in the bottom of the box, into which the colorful baby sand worms are pressed until they are no longer visible. The box is then turned around several times, so that...
On a peaceful summer day, otters gathered at the beach for a sandcastle building contest. The otter that builds the most beautiful sandcastle wins a delicious scallop. Each layer of the sandcastle shows the otters' passion and skill, but don't be too greedy! Sandcastles taller than 10 layers will collapse. This game combines push-your-luck and memory...
This is a very simple roll-and-move game from the former East Germany (DDR) -- the game is pictured in the Taschen Icons Book _DDR_Design_. From the appearance in the book, it's a bedtime game for children -- players roll the die and move their piece, and follow the directions when they land on certain spaces -- e.g. move forward, wait for two turns, etc....
Goal: You have to rebuild the chameleons on the table piece by piece, and try not to be the colour with most points on any of them. At the end of a round, Player which colour has the most points on a chameleon will score these points. Players may score on several chameleons at once. As soon as a player reaches 32 points, the game is over and the player...
"Sanzen-sekai no karasu wo koroshi, nushi to asane ga shitemitai" (translated as "I'd kill all the crows in the world to sleep with you in the morning") is an old song sung at a red-light district in the mid-1800s by one guest: Takasugi Shinsaku, a central figure of the early Meiji Restoration who lived a turbulent life. The saying means, "When a crow...
It's eat-or-be-eaten in this twist on Go Fish. Cast your line, reel in your catch, but beware -- reel in a sardine, and you'll be sorry! Outbluff your opponents to score the biggest catch! In this twist on a childhood classic, you'll play Go Fish as usual. However, when giving cards to other players, you do so face-down. They must then decide whether...
里山さすてぃなぶる (Satoyama Sustainable) is a card game from Japan, themed on the Satoyama landscape that exists in Japan. Satoyama is the area between arable flatland and the foothills of the mountains (sato 里 means village, and yama 山 means hill). In the game, players are placing cards in a pyramid, representing the food chain in a Satoyama area. The players'...
Sauria is a game where players are vying to complete as many of their individual goals as possible to gain Victory Points and then successfully reach safety before time runs out. While this is happening, they must also survive various dangerous dinosaurs that are out to get them. Players take on the role of 1 of 8 unique characters, ranging from the...