Gusher is the direct ancestor of Oil Power and King Oil and is similar in concept. The board is a hollow box with irregularly shaped wooden spacers between the top and bottom. The game board is shaken during the game setup to randomize the location of the wooden spacers (oil deposits). The playing surface is divided into 60 real estate parcels, each of...
Gusher is a press your luck area control game that drills deep into the theme of the oil business. The game is in years broken out by Four seasons with unique modified requirements given the time of the year. You battle the harsh terrain and weather with weather event cards and deal with Incident Reports on the job through Incident cards that affect your...
As a hamster owner in HAM-FARM, you are in charge of "running a company by hamsters for hamsters". You scout for new hamsters from the "ham farm," a recreation area on the outskirts of the company, and sometimes build useful facilities in order to create the best company for hamsters! Hamsters have "effect icons" and "scores," and the player with the...
1873 Harzbahn is an 18xx variant set in the Harz mountain range in northern Germany. It simulates not only the (narrow-gauge) railroads in that area, but also mines and other plants. Mining in the Harz mountains suffered a major crisis in the end of the 19th century and the theme of the game is to end this crisis by connecting the mines and other plants to...
Players embody fledgling companies with ruthless recruitment strategies. Each turn the companies may Hire and Fire, create patents, materials or goods, but they must also sell enough to be able to pay their employees. The most evil aspect is stealing another players' employee by offering them a pay rise...or was it a bluff forcing the player to increase...
The Queen has need of your services, tinkerer. Whosoever can demonstrate the greatest ingenuity and build the most amazing gizmos will win her favour and become the new Minister of Clockwork. Roll the dice and place gears to build a machine that will earn you coins, dice or wrenches. Press your luck as you race to impress her majesty by engineering the...
Game given by Dutch coffee company Douwe Egberts to customers which had collected a lot of coupons found on their products. Theme of the game is coffee (really!); you are a coffee seller buying raw harvested beans and rights for different production phases (blending, roasting, packaging and distribution) to optimize the profit from selling your coffee. You...