According to the instruction booklet, this game was developed while the designer was on a 6-month hike on the Appalachian Trail. He wanted to come up with a game to pass the time during rainy days that wouldn't take up much space and wouldn't add weight to his backpack. The game comes in a small rip stop bag with a drawstring closure. The bag contains 6...
A roll-and-move game with some unusual aspects. Before gameplay you have to fix two metal arcs into the gameboard so that they cross at the centre of the board. Then you begin starting in Berlin to travel along the routes with a car, trying to reach the next airport first. On the way you have to answer trivia questions of the regions and cities you touch...
In Potzblitz, everyone is playing at the same time, rolling their dice to complete the most lucrative tasks – or any task really as at the end of the round, the player who remains taskless pays a penalty, moving him closer to zero points. To start the game, each player takes three dice in a single color, a claim card, and eight blitz tokens. Each round...
You are a blob. Eat the city. Grow big. Earn the most points. Each Round you will roll 2 dice and then use one those dice to draw a shape in the city and then use the other die to grow the shape that you used in the city. You eat/devour a city shape when you completely cover each square of its shape. Each polyomino placed in your city is never the same, as...
This is a two-player, dice-rolling, push your luck micro-game fashioned as Soccer shootout. Objective: Win a shootout, best of 5. If tied, best of 1 thereafter. Setup: Both roll a die. Larger number wins. Pick your team and role to start the game - “Shooter” or “Goalie.” Play: The Shooter rolls the 1st die. The Goalie selects 1 of 4 corners to block using...
Blockade is a game that is played with Icehouse Pieces. Blockade is a roll-and-move race game played in two dimensions. Each player is assigned 2 colors in a 5x5 board, and are trying to arrange their pieces in formation first. However, as pieces arrive at their destinations, future piece movement by friend or foe is restricted. Players will need to...
Blockade is a tactical, team-based board game designed for 4 players. Teams of 2 work together to advance their Counters towards the Border and fill in their Tower squares to claim victory. Each player has a distinctive role on their team either building a formidable Offense or an impenetrable Defense. The game combines clever tactics, timely dice rolls...
The blockchain (also known as "the trust protocol") is a technology that aims at decentralization as a security measure. It is "an open, distributed ledger that can record transactions between two parties efficiently and verifiably and permanently". For use as a distributed ledger, a blockchain is typically managed by a peer-to-peer network collectively...
Game description from the publisher: Five "silly bags" are waiting to be won, so it's time to prove your skill at both poker and dice — but watch out as others will be trying to grab the bags, too! Whoever thinks he knows exactly which bag to take in Blöder Sack will likely be mistaken as players again and again hunt for the bag that holds the most — and...
Bloemeneiland - the Island of Flowers - is a game for 2 or 3 players who are flower buyers for the King. Players must buy flowers from the local merchants and growers and send them by ship back to the Palace to gain favor at court. The player with the most favor after six rounds is the winner. Playing the game: Beginning with the round’s Starting Player...
Each player (from 2 to 4) has a special cup containing one single dice. The player in turn after shaking his special dice cup, secretly examine the result and announces it. This announcement can be or not in agreement with the actual result. The other players can distrust in the veracity of the affirmation and then control the dice result looking through...