Q: What is the average weight of an adult male blue whale (to the nearest tonne)? How many people would know the answer to this question... not many you may say! But there's always some 'smarty pants' with a photographic memory for this type of information. And how many games have you played where the person in the lead just moves further ahead... and...
ひぐらしのなく頃に-我- ("Higurashi When They Cry: Ware") is a hidden role game where everyone starts in the same situation and it's possible to play successfully without lying. At the beginning of the game everyone has one of each of seven role cards; over five in-game days, players will give each other votes and discard roles until only one is left, which...
User summary 光と闇と (Hikari to Yami to) in English is 'Light & Darkness'. In the game of Hikari to Yami to, players play cards to score points, and the highest scorer wins the game. At the beginning of the game, players have the same number of cards. Each card belongs to one of two sides: light side or dark side, and players' sides are determined by majority...
Game is played over several rounds. Each round players try to build either the highest or lowest four digit number by rolling a die and placing a corresponding chip. Players have to 'guess' whether a high or low number will be good, since they only know one 'public card' and their 'hidden card'. Once all chips have been played all cards are turned over and...
姫とドラゴン人狼 (Hime to Dragon Jinro) is a Werewolf game from Japan, designed to be as small, quick and portable. Playable in 5 minutes without somebody to run the game. A princess from the land of the wolf fairies has a great adventure across the Lake of Dragons! A werewolf princess (werewolf) and her grandfather (madman), longing for the outside world, escape...
姫騎士逃ゲテ~ (Himekishi Nigete) is a partnership game by the game designer entaku_P. It translates as "Princess Knight, run away?". In the game, one of the players plays the Princess Knight to escape, and the other players play the Orcs, teaming up to catch the princess. Players draft action cards and the Orc team members work cooperatively but in silence. So...
ヒモトキ (Himotoki) is a 2 player abstract game from Japan. Players thread a cord through holes in a board that stands between them, so that polygon shapes are formed on both sides. With only ever seeing one side, the first player to successfully declare that they have made exactly four polygons, combining the shapes made on both sides, is the winner. The...
Home made variant of Clue/Cluedo, based on the Japanese comic/animation "When they cry…" (Higurashi no naku koro ni) Differs from standard Cluedo in many ways, mostly due to the fact that not all cards are distributed from the beginning, some are placed on the board. A hand limit also forces players to sometimes put down cards onto the board. Corridors are...
Hincksville is quite the perplexing town! As a resident, and avid reader of The Hincks Gazette, you know it’s up to you to unwind the enigmas hidden within this puzzling newspaper. Each issue of The Hincks Gazette is a self-contained game which includes a front-page article filling you in on the debacle currently turning Hincksville upside down, and a path...
Hincksville is quite the perplexing town! As a resident, and avid reader of The Hincks Gazette, you know it’s up to you to unwind the enigmas hidden within this puzzling newspaper. Each issue of The Hincks Gazette is a self-contained game which includes a front-page article filling you in on the debacle currently turning Hincksville upside down, and a path...